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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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






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






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






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






5. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






6. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






8. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






11. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






13. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






15. Internet2 organization created






16. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






17. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






26. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






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






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






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






41. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






44. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






47. Internet2 organization created






48. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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