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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






3. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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






8. Internet2 organization created






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






10. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






13. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






15. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






20. Internet2 organization created






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






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






23. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






24. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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






28. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






29. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






30. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






32. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






33. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






44. Tsai Lun invents paper






45. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






48. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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