7th hour timeline- Gabby

By callofdutygurl
  • Jan 4, 1450

    Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.

    1. Black letters roll ink on a piece of paper. 2.Invented printing press with Replaceable/ moveable wooden or metal letters in 1436 (completed by 1440).

  • mechanical semaphore is invented in france.

    1. Popular in the late 18th to the early 19th century.
    2. System of conveging information by means of visual signals.

  • Ada Byron, a mathematician, writes the world's first computer program for computing machine designed by Charles Babbage, but never built.

    1. First described in 1837.
    2. Babbage continued to refine the design until his death in 1871.

  • Gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.

    1. Predictions were made that the radio waves would be lost.
    2. Signals were sent in morse code from Doldhu, Cornwall in England.

  • First communications satellite is launched, allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 Olympics.

    1. Summer Olyimpics in Tokyo- Job to relay
    2. First truly Geostationary satellite launched in orbit was the Syncom 3.

  • The internet is invented by the U.S. government as a means of military communication.

    1.DARPA Internet, Largely the plaything of academic military researchers spent more than a decade in relative obscurity.
    2. Several internet research teams procede through a gradual evolution of protocalls.

  • The frist E-mail messages are sent.

    1. First E-mail was sent byy a chap named Ray Tomlinson, who developed the software.
    2. First E-mail was sent betweeen two machines that were right next to eachother.

  • Marc Andreeson creates the first browser program, allowing people to navigate the web.

    1. Andreeson was still a student researcher at the university of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in 1993 when he helped conceive and create the 1st popular Internet browser.
    2. Andreeson founded a program called Netscape.

  • Chinese make paper from rags.- 105

    1. Ts'ai Lun seems to be the 1st to start a paper making company.
    2. He may have based his idea off of the common bark cloth.
    3. Theh ingredients were finly chopped mulberry bark and hemp rags.