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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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1. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






2. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






4. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






7. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






9. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






10. Internet2 organization created






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






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






13. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






14. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






17. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






18. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






19. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






22. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






23. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






24. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






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






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






29. Tsai Lun invents paper






30. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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






34. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Donald Knuth begins work on TeX






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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