| Event Date: | Event Title: | Event Description: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/01/1520 | Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage | on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage the ships signal each other by firing cannons and raising flags | |
| 01/22/1560 | Camera Obscura invented | camera obscura was invented, which is primative image making | |
| 01/22/1650 | First Daily Newspaper | first daily newspaper is created | |
| 01/22/1712 | Atmospheric Steam Engine | Thoms Newcome invents the atmospheric steam engine | |
| 01/22/1714 | First Patent of Typewriter | Henry Mills patents the typewritter | |
| 01/22/1774 | Electric Telegraph | George Louis patents the very first electric telegraph, the electric telegraph uses electric signals that people use to talk to various people with coded text messages | |
| 01/22/1775 | Steamship created | Jacques Perrier invents the steamship which allows people to travel accroos seas to communicate with others | |
| 01/22/1791 | Bicycle created | early bicycles are invented in Scotland | |
| 01/22/1793 | 1st Long Distance Semaphore Telegraph Line | Claude Chappe invents the first long distance semaphore telegraph line | |
| 01/22/1814 | First Photographic Image | Joseph Nicephore Niecpe achieves the first photographic image, so now people can now communicate with pictures and visuals | |
| 01/22/1829 | Typewriter, Braille Printing, and Typographer Invented | W.A. Burt invents the typewriter, Louis Braille invents braille printing for the blind and William Austin Bart creates a typographer, which is a prodecessor to the typewriter | |
| 01/22/1876 | Improvements to Electric Telegraph Line | Alexander Graham Bell patents and improves the electric telegraph line | |
| 01/22/1877 | Thomas Edison Patents the Phonograph | Thomas Edison patents the phonograph, which is a object that plays recorded sound | |
| 01/22/1877 | Eadweard Muybridge Invents High Speed Photography | Eadwear Muybridge invents high speed photography, and created the first moving pictures that capture motion | |
| 01/22/1884 | Fountain Pen Invented | Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first pratical fountain pen, so now people can communicate through letters. | |
| 01/22/1886 | First Four Wheeled Vehicle Created | Gottlieb Daimler builds the first four-wheeled vehicle, making traveling and communicating a lot easier | |
| 01/22/1887 | Emile Berliner Invents Gramophone | Gramophone, which is a system of recording that can be used over and over again, is invented by Emile Berliner | |
| 01/22/1888 | George Eastman Patents Kodak Film | The Kodak roll film camera is patent by George Eastman, this was a big step in visual communications history | |
| 01/22/1889 | Almon Strowger Patents the Direct Dial Telephone | the direct dial teleohone a.k.a automatic telephone exchange is patented by Almon Strowger, making communication by phone a lot more efficient | |
| 01/22/1894 | Guglielmo Marconi Improves Wireless Telegraphy | Guqlielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy, which is a type of communication where messages are sent long distances by using radio | |
| 01/22/1898 | First Answering Machines Created | the first answering machines are created | |
| 01/22/1901 | First Radio Receiver Successfully Recieves a Radio Transmission | The very first radio reciever, recieves a radio transmission successfully, this was a major step in long distance communication. | |
| 01/22/1902 | 1st Radio Signal Across the Atlantic Ocean | Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwell to Newfoundland, the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. | |
| 01/22/1903 | The Wright Brothers | The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane | |
| 01/22/1906 | Lee Deforest Invents the Triode | Lee Deforest invents the electronic amplifying tube or triode - this allowed all electronic signals to be amplified improving all electronic communications examples: telephones and radios. | |
| 01/22/1914 | 1st Cross Continetal Call | First cross continental telephone call made. | |
| 01/22/1916 | 1st Radio's with Tuners | First radios with tuners, this allows people to turn to different stations | |
| 01/22/1923 | Invention of T.V. | The television or iconoscope invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - first television camera. | |
| 01/22/1925 | Invention of the Mechanical T.V. | The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird. | |
| 01/22/1925 | 1st T.V. Signal | John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal | |
| 01/22/1934 | 1st Tape Recorder for Broadcasting | Joseph begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting first magnetic recording. | |
| 01/22/1938 | Ballpoint Pen is Invented | The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro | |
| 01/22/1941 | Z3 is Invented | Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software | |
| 01/22/1942 | Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum Technique Created | Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique | |
| 01/23/1944 | Mark 1 put into Public Service | Computers like Harvard's Mark I put into public service - government owned - the age of Information Science begins. | |
| 01/23/1947 | Mobile Phones Invented | Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983. | |
| 01/23/1949 | Network T.V. Begins | Network television starts in U.S | |
| 01/23/1951 | Computers Hit the Market | Computers are first sold commercially. | |
| 01/23/1957 | Computer Language is Invented | Fortran (computer language) invented | |
| 01/23/1963 | Geosynchronous Communication Satelite is Launched | First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched | |
| 01/23/1963 | Zip Codes Invented | Zip codes invented in the United States. | |
| 01/23/1966 | First Successful Fax Machine | Xerox invents the Telecopier - the first successful fax machine | |
| 01/23/1969 | 1st Internet Started | ARPANET - the first Internet started | |
| 01/23/1979 | 1st Cell Phone Communication Network | First cellular phone communication network started in Japan | |
| 01/23/1981 | 1st Laptop Sold Commercially | First laptop computers sold to public | |
| 01/23/1981 | 1st Celluar Phone Network in the U.S. | first celluar network is started in the U.S. | |
| 01/23/1989 | Worldwide Web is Created | Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN | |
| 01/23/1994 | WWW is Born | American government releases control of internet and WWW is born - making communication at lightspeed | |
| 01/23/1995 | Vocaltec is Invented | the first VoIP software is released called Vocaltec and allows voice calls over the internet | |
| 01/23/1996 | Email beats Postal Mail | for the first time there are more emails sent then postal mail in the U.S. | |
| 01/23/1998 | The Birth of Weblogs | Internet weblogs begin to appear | |
| 01/23/2000 | The Internet Era Begins | Ex-President Bill Clinton announces a new website that will be able to search all government resources and AOL memebership surpases 28 million. The internet becomes a very popular form of communication. |
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