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Timeline Of Communication Technology

Subjects : trivia, history
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1. Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls - and write other documents on more perishable media






2. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






5. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






6. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






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






11. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






12. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






14. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






16. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






18. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






22. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






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






26. Tsai Lun invents paper






27. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






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






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






33. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






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






39. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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






44. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






46. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






47. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






48. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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