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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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






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






13. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






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






16. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






17. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






18. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






29. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






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






33. Tsai Lun invents paper






34. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






45. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






46. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






48. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






50. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet