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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






2. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






4. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






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






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






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






10. Internet2 organization created






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






12. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






13. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






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






17. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






19. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






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






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






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






25. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






27. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






28. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






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






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






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






34. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






36. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






38. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






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






42. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






45. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






46. Tsai Lun invents paper






47. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






49. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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