great moments in communications

By 14jadend
  • printing press
    Jan 6, 1450

    printing press

    Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.

  • Newspapers Published

  • Mechanical Semaphore

  • Computer Program

    Program built for computer built by Ada Byron

  • telegragh

    Samuel Morse invents a telegragh than can send short and long beeps called dots and dashes

  • Transatlantic cable

  • Telephone

    Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone transmittin the sound of the voice clearly over electical wires
  • Phonogragh

    Phonogragh

    device to record sound on a wax cylinder

  • first phone calls were made

    First long distance phone calls were made

  • radio signal

    Gugliermo marconi sends the first radio signal across the atlantic ocean

  • Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines

    Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines
  • Television

    Television

    Very first few homes get television sets to watch broadcast programs

  • satellite communication

    First communications satellite is lanunched allowing worldwide likve broadcast of the 1964 Olympics

  • Internet

    The internet is invented by the u.s. goverment as a means of military communication

  • e-mail

    The first e-mail messages are sent

  • personal computer

    The personal computer both samll and powerful is invented
  • emotiction

    emotiction

    The first emotiction is used in an e-mail

  • cell phone

    The first cell phones are available for sale

  • world wide web

    Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web

  • browser program

    Marc Anderson creates the first browser program allowing people to navigate the web