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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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1. Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line






2. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






3. Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second






4. Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique






5. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






6. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






7. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






8. Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique






9. Internet2 organization created






10. Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line






11. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.






12. Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell-based approach which lead to 'cellular phones'






13. Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).






14. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






15. Claude Elwood Shannon - the 'father of information theory' - mathematically proves the Nyquist






16. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media






17. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






18. Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection






19. Tsai Lun invents paper






20. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






21. Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.






22. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






23. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






24. Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers






25. Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type






26. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston






27. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






28. Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell-based approach which lead to 'cellular phones'






29. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.






30. Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second






31. The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing






32. Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun






33. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston






34. Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas






35. Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp - eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply






36. First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched - 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article






37. Internet2 organization created






38. Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp - eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply






39. Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).






40. Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use






41. Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line






42. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






43. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






44. Tsai Lun invents paper






45. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






46. Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.






47. Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line






48. First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched - 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article






49. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media






50. The first hosts of ARPANET -Internet's ancestor - are connected.