A History of Communication

By Chocolate milk lover
  • Jan 1, 700

    700s

    Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media.
  • Jan 1, 751

    751

    Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas.
  • Jan 1, 1305

    1305

    The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing.
  • Jan 1, 1405

    1450

    Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type.
  • Jan 1, 1520

    1520

    Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.

  • 1793

    Claude Chappe establishes the first long- distance semaphore telegraph line.

  • 1831

    Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph.

  • 1835

    Samuel Morse develops the Morse code.

  • 1843

    Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line.

  • 1844

    Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply.

  • 1849

    Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers.

  • 1876

    Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston.

  • 1877

    Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.

  • 1889

    Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone.

  • 1901

    Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland.
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    Communication

  • 1925

    John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal.

  • 1942

    Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique.

  • 1947

    Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell- based approach which leads to "cellular phones".

  • 1947

    Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell- based approach which leads to "cellular phones".

  • 1949

    Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.

  • 1958

    Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use.

  • 1963

    First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article.

  • 1966

    Charles Kao realizes that silica- based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection.

  • 1969

    The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.

  • 1971

    Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

  • 1977

    Donald Knuth begins work on TeX.

  • 1989

    Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN.

  • 1991

    Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fibre with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second.

  • 1992

    Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).

  • AD 26 - 37

    Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signalling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun.

  • 105

    Tsai Lun invents paper.