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In Europe in the mid-15th century Johannes Gutenburg invented the printing press, which made books much cheaper and allowed newspapers to be invented.
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How communication has changed over the years.
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People communicated by writing letters in the 1700s: however sending letters was a slow and unreliable process.
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The telegraph was a machine invented in the early 1800s. It made use of electricity, which was still somewhat of a novelty at the time, to transmit messages.
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Other forms of communication in the 1800s were paper and pencil, newspapers and storytelling.
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The telegraph was a machine invented in the early 1800s. It made use of electricity, which was still somewhat of a novelty at the time, to transmit messages.
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There was a telegraph service for people to communicate before the invention of the telephone around 1900.
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Newspaper were also used in 1903.
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In 1912 very few households had a phone of their own.
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In 1920, radio became the first form of mass-communication.
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In 1985 telegrams were the most common way to send a message if it was urgent and/or needed to be sent long distance.
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In the early 21st century the internet became an important form of communication. Today email has become one of the most popular methods of communication.
