Communication in History

  • First Newspaper

    First Newspaper
    First newspaper published in England
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Telegraph invented
  • Electrical speech machine

    Electrical speech machine
    Used electricity and magnets to capture and send the sound of the human voice over long distances. The messages could only go where their wires led.
  • Television

    Television
    Television was invented in 1925 by John Logie Baird and the BBC
  • Email

    Email
    The first email was sent. Ray Tomlinson sent to himself in 1971. "The test messages were entirely forgettable...Most lkkely the first message was QWERYIOP or something similar,"he said.
  • Text

    Text
    The first commercial text was sent