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100
Bound Books
The first bound books were created and used. -
100
Messengers come in
Messengers came in by foot or on horse most commonly used in Egypt and China with messenger relay stations build. -
105
Tsai Lun
Tsai Lun of China invents paper as we know it. -
305
First Printed Presses
First wooden printing presses invented in China - symbols carved on a wooden block. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Communication
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Jan 1, 1049
First Mobable type
First movable type invented - clay - invented in China by Pi Sheng. -
Jan 1, 1450
Newspapers appear in Europe
Newspapers appear in Europe -
Jan 1, 1455
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type. -
Claude Chappe
Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line. -
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph. -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine. -
Pony Express
The United States starts the pony express for mail delivery -
American,
American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter. -
Thomas Edison
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. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.
Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion. -
Emilie Berliner
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again. -
George Eastman
George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera. -
Almon Strowgert
Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange. -
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy. -
Romans
Romans establish postal services. -
Heliographs
Heliographs - first recorded use of mirrors to send messages by Roman Emperor Tiberius.
