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the Greek way
A greek historian named polybius, invented a system that allowed him to send coded messages by smoke siganls converting greek alphabetic characters tp numeric characters. This way of communication was good for war strategy by sending coded messages.
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Nov 18, 1150
Carrier Pigeons
In 1150 people started using carrier pigeons and some people refeered to them as "flying rats". One day an african company some data in africa and wanted to see how good these carrier pigeons actually were. The carrier pigeon took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds to get to its destination. https://www.atlassian.com/communication-through-the-ages-infographic http://www.loyno.edu/lucec/natural-history-writings/pigeons -
Jun 12, 1443
First U.S Printing Press
In 1443 Johan Gutenberg,a goldsmith, and a metal worker basically created the same printing press the chinese inevented but expiremented using metal typography with it. At the time the communications over-seas was limited which is why the americans never knew the chinese invented it first. This changed communication by getting news out faster to the world, printing books, etc.
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Telegraph
Joseph Henry creates the first eletric telegraph in 1831. Later on he got a patent for the telegraph. The telegraph was perfect for sending quick messages to and from somewhere.
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Photography
In 1835 Henry Fox Talbot discovered/invented a silver clhoride camera film on paper. He called this the two-step negative-positive procedure. This changed communication by alot because now you could look at past memorys and show friends, other people, cousins, etc. http://akvis.com/en/articles/photo-history/talbot.php -
First Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first words on the very first telephone that he invented in 1876. This changed communication by getting news faster every where. Later on alexander got a patent for the telephone. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm -
Crystal radio
The crystal radio was inevented in the 1920's and the way it worked is that it ran off of a crystal inside the radio and when the radio put out sound waves it charged the crytal inside the radio which made the radio wireless. Basically it was a big deal for radios. http://www.arcsandsparks.com/aboutcrystalradios.html -
Chinese Printing
In 800AD a chinese man printed a full wooden block of words and this was a major break thrue for the chinese. Wood-block required a new block of wood to be carved for each page since none of the pages werent the same. When the blocks were complete an expert could print a thousand or more sheets a day. http://fourriverscharter.org/projects/Inventions/pages/china_printingpress.htm
