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The Typewriter
The Typewriter may not be used very much in todays society, but it was a huge part of the 19th Century. The concept of the typewriter was first created by an Englishman, Henry Mill, in 1714. He was not successful in making his creation a reality. He had help from an Itallian, Pellegrino Turri. He was the first person to create a successful typewriter in 1808. http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-history.html -
The Telegraph
The Telegraph was invented in 1831 by Joseph Henry. With his invention Joseph Henry revolutionized the concept of long-distance communication. The Telegraph works by creation electrical signals and transmiting them over a wire connecting the two stations. Later the next year, Samuel Morse created morse code. This was done by setting dots and lines for the english alphabet. http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph -
The Telephone
The first telephone ever created was created in 1876 by Alexander Grahm Bell. In 1877-78 The first swichboard was created for the telephone. A short three years later nearly 50,000 telephones were created. Today nearly 87% of our population owns a Telephone/ cellphone. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/1870.xhtml -
The Computer
On June 14, 1951 the first comuter named the UNIVAC was created by Presper Eckert. This is the first commercially produced electronic digital computer. UNIVAC represents Universal Automatic Computer, and this huge computer used thousands of computation tubes and are forunners of todays modern computers. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/univac-computer-dedicated -
The E-mail
Back in 1971, Tomlinson was a young engineer at the Boston firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, known today as BBN Technologies. He'd been given a task: Figure out something interesting to do with ARPANET, the newborn computer network that was the predecessor of the modern day Internet. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/innovation/inventing_email.pdf -
The Internet
In October 1972, Kahn organized a large, very successful demonstration of the ARPANET at the International Computer Communication Conference. This was the first public demonstration of this new network technology to the public. It was also in 1972 that the initial "hot" application, electronic mail, was introduced. Then in 1973, A global computer network emerged, providing a variety of information and communication facuulties. http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/histor -
Skype
Skype headquartered in Luxembourg began in 2003, and was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Skype is an online communciation tool that you can use to talk to anyone anywhere in the world. You can use it as an instant messaging service, a telephone, and video calls. Skype has grown from a small program that very few people knew of, to a very useful program that millions of people use. http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/articles/6109.aspx
