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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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1. Internet2 organization created






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






3. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






4. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






5. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






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






9. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






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






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






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






15. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






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






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






26. Tsai Lun invents paper






27. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






29. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






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






35. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN






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






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






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






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






40. Tsai Lun invents paper






41. Internet2 organization created






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






43. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






45. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






47. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






50. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph