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The Phoenicians develop an alphabet.
The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing - pictographs of accounts written on clay tablets.
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Greeks use a phonetic alphabet written from left to right.
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Oldest records of writing in China on bones.
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the first encyclopedia is witten in Syria.
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The very first postal service - for govenment use in China.
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Fisrt recorded use of homing pegions used to send messages - the winter of the Olympics Games™ to the Athiens.
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The Greeks started the very first library.
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Papyrus rolls in early parchments made of dried reeds - first portable and light writing surface.
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Human messengers on foot or horseback common in Egypt and China with messenger relay stations built.
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Romans establish postal services.
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Heliographs - first recorded use of mirrors to send messages by Roman Emperor Tiberius.
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First bound books.
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Tsai Lun of China invents paper as we know it.
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First wooden printing presses invented in China - symbols carved on a wooden block.
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First movable type invented - clay - invented in China by Pi Sheng.
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Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type.
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Camera Obscura invented - primitive image making.
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First daily newspaper - Leipzig.
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Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter.
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Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.
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Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone.
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Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
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Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine. -
United States starts the Pony Express for mail delivery.
Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen. -
American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.
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Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.
Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books.