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Timeline Of Communication Technology
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1. Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers
AD 26-37
1849
1877
1971
2. Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique
1942
AD 26-37
1947
3500s BC
3. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media
7th century
1831
1966
751
4. Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers
7th century
1849
1989
1889
5. Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line
1969
1849
1793
751
6. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.
1843
1520
1971
1989
7. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.
AD 26-37
1971
3500s BC
751
8. The first hosts of ARPANET -Internet's ancestor - are connected.
1305
1949
1969
1901
9. Claude Elwood Shannon - the 'father of information theory' - mathematically proves the Nyquist
1942
1520
1991
1949
10. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media
751
1977
1889
7th century
11. Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique
1947
1877
1942
1793
12. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston
1793
1793
1876
AD 26-37
13. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet
16th century BC
1942
1992
1947
14. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone
1889
3500s BC
1949
1843
15. Internet2 organization created
751
1992
1831
1835
16. Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).
1992
105
1994
1844
17. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code
1450
1835
16th century BC
1963
18. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX
1876
1977
1520
7th century
19. Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type
105
1450
1991
Prior to 3500BC
20. Claude Elwood Shannon - the 'father of information theory' - mathematically proves the Nyquist
1949
7th century
1843
1942
21. Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.
1520
Prior to 3500BC
1831
1450
22. Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line
1963
1966
1793
Prior to 3500BC
23. Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection
Prior to 3500BC
1963
1966
1889
24. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland
1901
1831
1977
1305
25. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph
1994
1831
1989
1949
26. Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun
1966
1831
AD 26-37
1989
27. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal
1925
751
1994
1958
28. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
1877
16th century BC
1835
1901
29. Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.
Prior to 3500BC
1949
AD 26-37
1994
30. Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second
AD 26-37
1971
1831
1991
31. First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched - 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article
1963
1966
1877
1305
32. Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp - eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply
105
1844
1793
1966
33. Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection
1876
1966
1971
1901
34. The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing
1843
105
3500s BC
1966
35. Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas
1992
1844
7th century
751
36. Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.
1949
1977
1520
1849
37. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing
1520
1925
1835
1305
38. Tsai Lun invents paper
1942
1793
1971
105
39. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal
1966
Prior to 3500BC
1925
1876
40. The first hosts of ARPANET -Internet's ancestor - are connected.
1969
1889
1994
105
41. Internet2 organization created
1989
1992
1849
1991
42. Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas
1877
751
1831
1949
43. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland
1901
1831
751
1969
44. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN
1843
3500s BC
1992
1989
45. First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched - 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article
1963
1450
1835
1992
46. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
1877
1305
1958
1994
47. Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use
Prior to 3500BC
1849
1958
1849
48. Tsai Lun invents paper
1971
105
7th century
1844
49. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston
1520
Prior to 3500BC
1876
1450
50. Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.
1949
1991
1520
1849