History of communication 1800-2010

Timeline created by wanny95 in Art and Culture

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1800	1800 The Battery	Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery. The Battery is used to power many communication devices today.
01/01/1826	First photograph taken	Joseph Niecephore Niepce. Photos are used every where for advertising and many different things.
01/01/1829	Braille	Luis Braille. Braille lettering is used to communicte to the blind. It is still in use today.
01/01/1829	Typewriter	W.A. Burt. The type writer hlps make a letter faster then writing.
01/01/1837	Telegraph	SAmual Morse. The telegraph was used to send messages through a wire to far away places.
01/01/1851	World's Fair	This World's Fair was held in England. The fair showed off many different advancements in technology from different countries.. Most of the American machinary was what we used to start the Industrial Revolution in America.
01/01/1854	Fiber Optics	John Tyndall dementrated the pricibles of fiber optics. THis is used to broadcast TV channels like the local news.
04/03/1860	The Pony Express	Founded by William H. Russell, William B. Waddell, and Alexander Majors. The Pony Express was the first Mail system in North America. This was the start of the mail system we use today.
01/01/1876	Telephone.	Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone is used today by millions of people around the world.
12/01/1876	Microphones	Emile Berliner. Microphones take in acoustic sounds and sends them through a wire that is connected to a speaker that amplifies the sound. Micrphones are used for Many famouse speechs, like the presidintial speeches.
01/01/1888	Kodak Camera	Kodak.. This camera was offered at 25$ a piece, but it was worth it. This camera revolutionized modern cameras today. It allowed people to have a camera at home and take personal pictures for them selves.
01/01/1888	National Goegraphic Magazine	This Magazine allowed people to see and learn about the world. This gave a new perspective on how big and vast the world really is. Now We can see National Geographic on the Television.
01/01/1902	Neon Light	George Claude. Neon Lights are used by stores and big buisnesses to catch peoples attention.
01/01/1902	Lie Detector	James Mackenzie. The Lie detector helps cops bust crimanals if they are not telling the truth.
01/01/1910	Talking motion picture	Thomas Edison.This paved the way for movies today.
01/01/1923	Traffic signal	Garret A. Morgan. The traffic signal is used today to tell cars when to stop and go at an intersection.
01/01/1938	Computar Printers	Chester Carlson. This Printer is what started the idea of the laser Printer
01/01/1942	Electronic digital computar	John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. Computars are used today for talking to other people across the world.
01/01/1952	Bar Code	Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. The bar code system allows store managers to keep track of their items in their stock.
05/25/1961	Space Race	John F. Kennedy gives his famouse speech to go to the moon. This started the space race. We now can send sattalites that are up in space that lets us use cell phones and watch Television.
01/01/1962	cassette tape	The Phillips Company. The cassette tape allowed people to listen to music or a book using a more small compact cartidge.
01/01/1965	Compact Disk	James Russell. The CD is used for many things today like the DvD.
01/01/1973	Ethernet	Rober Metcalfe and Xerox. The ethernet allowed people totalk to each other in the house using their own network.
01/01/1977	post-it-notes	Arthur Fry. Post-it-notes allows people to write little quick messages on a little piece of paper with a sticky glue on the back to stick it to things.
01/01/1984	Apple Macintosh	Steves Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple Macintosh is the fastest most protected computar in the world. It is the best computar ever.
01/01/1988	Doppler Radar	Christian Andreas Doppler. The Doppler Radar monoters whether in the range of the radar. This helps meterologists predict wheather patterns and tell us what the wheather will be like.
01/01/1990	World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee. The World Wide Web lets people tlk to each other from across the world using the computer.
01/01/2005	Youtube	Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Tawed Karim. Youtube allows people to watch amature videos and comment and talk about them on one website.
01/01/2007	iPhone	Apple Macintosh. This phone allows people to talk to each other and surf the internet at the same time.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1800 to 08/23/2010	1800-2010