communication in history

By taylorhargrove
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    Cave drawings

    Cave drawings
    http://www.cnet.com/news/stone-age-cave-art-the-worlds-first-animation/(40,000 to 10,000 BC) Murals were painted on cave walls that told stories of battles, hunting, and cultural. We can say this with confidence, for cave art at its best was difficult and expensive to produce. First, it required lighting. Some eighty five certain and thirty one probable examples of Palaeolithic lamps have survived but less than one third of them were found inside caves or around them.
  • Jan 1, 1439

    printing press

    printing press
    http://historyguide.org/intellect/press.html John Gutenberg was the first European to use movable printing, in around 1439. Among his many contributions to printing are 1) The invention of a process for mass-producing movable type 2) The use of oil-based ink 3) And the use of a wooden printing press similar to the agricultural screw presses of the period.

  • telegraph

    telegraph
    http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec002.htmAn electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signalling alphabet with Morse code. It helped communicate through wars.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htmAlexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Now the telephone is used world wide. It has dramaticly changed the way people communicate.

  • E-mail

    E-mail
    http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htmAccording to Mr Ayyadurai, Mr Tomlinson's creation in 1971 was a primitive form of text messaging, while he had invented what we know as email in 1978 when he was a 14-year-old boy helping out the Newark dental school where his mother worked. It is now used nation wide.

  • Skype

    Skype
    dictionary.comStarted video call revolution. specializes in providing video chat and voice calls from computers, tablets and mobile devices via the Internet to other devices or telephones/smartphones

  • Internet

    Internet
    http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-internetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to link several billion devices worldwide.The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. While it’s often confused with the Internet itself, the we