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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. Internet2 organization created






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






4. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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






8. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






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






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






14. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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






18. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






19. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






22. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






23. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






24. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






26. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






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






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






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






32. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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






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






38. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






39. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






41. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






43. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






45. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






48. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






49. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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