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Timeline Of Communication Technology

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1. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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






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






12. The Phoenicians develop an alphabet






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






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






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






16. Samuel Morse develops the Morse code






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






18. Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland






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






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






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






22. John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal






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






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






25. The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing






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






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






28. Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone






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






30. Thomas Edison patents the phonograph






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






32. Tsai Lun invents paper






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






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






35. Internet2 organization created






36. Tsai Lun invents paper






37. Internet2 organization created






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph






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