30 events/inventions

  • Jan 1, 1440

    Printing Press.

    Johannes Gutenberg. ;
    The printing press changed communication because it gave us a way to print out information & share it with other people.
  • Braille.

    Louis Braille. ;
    the system is used by blind people to read and write. The Braille system uses an alphabet of letters, or characters. Each character is made of a series of dots that rise out of the paper in a special pattern. Blind people read braille by using their fingers to feel the characters.
  • Rotary Printing Press

    In 1843 Richard March Hoe invented the rotary printing press.A desighn much faster than the flatbed printing press.Hoe hit upon the idea of fastening lead type around the circumference of a very large cylinder in the center of the press
  • Printing Press,Web Rotary

    William Bullock's invention of the Web Rotary Printing Press represents the begining to the modern, web fed newspaper press, which works from curved, stereotype plates and prints on both sides of the paper in one pass through the machine.
  • Teleaoutograph

    Elsha Gray had some 70 patent's including one for a multiplex teleaoutograph. He claimed to have inveted the telephone in the 1870's, but lost the the patent to Alexander Gram Bell is case he decided to go into the U.S supreme court.
  • Telephone

    The telephone created by ALexander Bell revolutionized the daily lives of people for communtication
  • Film roll.

    George Eastman. ;
    the film roll changed communication because with it, we could print out the pictures we take with the camera. & With those pictures, we can create a message through them.
  • Halftone Printing Process.

    Frederic Ives. ;
    This changed communication because it made it alot easier to see pictures clearly.
  • Linotype Composing Machine

    ottmar Mergenhaler's linoytp composing machine is regarded as the greatest advancement in printing since the development of the moveable type over 400 years ago.
  • Typewriting Machine

    The evolution of the typewriter is part of the ongoing history of the human need to communicate. Gradually a machine emerged that revolutionized the work of the writer. In 1867. Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule invented the first practical mechanical typewriter machine
  • Multiplex Railway Telegraph.

    Granville Woods. ;
    By allowing dispatchers to know the location of each train, it provided for greater safety and a decrease in railway accidents
  • Camera, Kodak

    George Eastman. ;
    The camera changed communication because we can communicate through pictures.
  • Punched Card Tabulating Machine

    Herman Hollerith, American inventor, born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Columbia University, who devised a system of encoding data on cards through a series of punched holes.
  • Pupin Inductance Coil.

    Michael Pupin. ;
    It's oscillating circuit made possible the simultaneous transmissions of several messages while it's inductance coil increased the range of long-distance telephone communication.
  • Radio Wireless Signling

    Regenald Fessenden hooked up a microphone and communicated intellegable speech by electrom agnetic waves over a distance of 50 miles.
  • Alexanderson Alternator.

    Ernst Alexanderson. ;
    It's a generator for radio communication.
  • Radio Remote control

    John Hay Hammond's developed Radio Remote Control served as basic control for missile guidence systems. Invented by John Hay Hammond
  • Television

    Philio Taylor Farnsworth , American inventor and pioneer in television technology. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with camera and reciver, but failed to produce his system commercialy.
  • Mark I computer

    Howard Hathaway Aiken with his colleagues at Harvard, and with some assistance from International Business Machines, by 1944 had built the Mark I, the world’s first program-controlled calculator and radio wave transmitter.
  • Internet.

    J.C.R. Licklider. ;
    The internet changed communication because now we can email people & get on websites to talk.
  • Smoke Alarm

    In 1969 BRK Electronics designed the first battery-operated smoke alarm to receive UL (Underwriters Laboratories Inc.) Listing. During the 1970's, as part of the Pittway Corporation, the smoke alarm division flourished.
  • PC(personal Computer

    Personal Computers, microcomputers were made possible by two technical innovations in the field of microelectronics: the integrated circuit, or IC, which was developed in 1959; and the microprocessor, which first appeared in 1971. The IC permitted the miniaturization of computer-memory circuits, and the microprocessor reduced the size of a computer's CPU to the size of a single silicon chip.
  • Laptop.

    Adam Osborne. ;
    You can take the laptop anywhere & communicate as long as you have a connection to the internet.
  • Mobile Phone.

    Richard Frenkiel & Joel Engel. ;
    The mobile phone changed communication because with it, we can text, call, email. Pretty much everything.
  • World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web (WWW) has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, computer and Internet set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities.Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991