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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






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






4. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






7. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






8. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






11. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






13. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






16. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






17. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






18. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






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






24. Internet2 organization created






25. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






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






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






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






30. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






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






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






35. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






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






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






40. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






43. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






46. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






47. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






50. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code