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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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






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






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






14. Tsai Lun invents paper






15. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






17. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






22. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






24. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






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






27. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






29. Internet2 organization created






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






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






32. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






33. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






36. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






38. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






40. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






43. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






46. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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