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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






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






4. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






5. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






8. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






17. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






18. Tsai Lun invents paper






19. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






23. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






28. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






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






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






33. Tsai Lun invents paper






34. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






35. Internet2 organization created






36. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






38. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Internet2 organization created






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






50. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing