History of Communication

By linderandlaura
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    History of Communicating Technology

    Timeline of great inventions used for communication.

  • Joseph Neipce-First Photographic Image

    Beginning of photography and pictures everywhere.

  • Charles Wheatstone-First Microphone

    Microphones help us to hear what people on the T.V. are saying or help us hear a person in a big crowd.

  • Joseph Henry-First Telegraph

    Helped send messages across long distances.

  • Samuel Morse-Morse Code, which was used by the Telegraph.

    Morse code is a set of dots and dashes put together that translates into english words.

  • Samuel Morse-Fax machine.

    Used to copy an image and send it through the teleohone wires to another fax machine and copy it there.

  • United States starts the Pony Express

    The Pony Express was a mail service used across the great plains.

  • American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.

    Starts the creation of books and magazines.

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.

    We use teleohoines today to communicate from a long distance.

  • Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.

    Helps save time instead of creating the same thing over and over again.

  • Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books.

    Idk what the dewey decimal system is. And i dont feel like looking it up right now. :P

  • Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again.

  • George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.

  • Almon Strowger patents the direct automatic telephone exchange.

  • Guglielmo Marconi-Makes wireless Telegraphy better.

  • First telephone Answering Machines.