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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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1. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






12. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






14. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






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






18. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






22. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






33. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






34. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






35. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






36. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






38. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






46. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






50. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing