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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






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






4. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






5. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






8. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






9. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






10. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






12. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






26. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






29. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






30. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






34. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






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






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






39. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






42. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






44. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






45. Tsai Lun invents paper






46. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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