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The most well-known form of primitive communication is cave paintings. Created by a species of man, The method involved creating pigments made from the juice of fruits and berries, colored minerals, or animal blood. -
Egyptians used hieroglyphs for almost 3,500 years and it was suggested by archaeological discoveries that the Egyptian hieroglyphs may be one of the oldest writing forms. -
a system of writing used in the ancient Middle East. The name, a coinage from Latin and Middle French roots means “wedge-shaped,” and was a modern designation from the early 18th century onward. It was also one of the most widespread and historically significant writing systems in the ancient Middle East. -
a group of Semitic-speaking people, perhaps the Phoenicians, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean invented a consonantal writing system known as North Semitic, which is similar to what we use today. -
An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals. -
The photography of colour was theorized decades before it was developed for motion pictures. -
Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. -
The innovation that Johannes Gutenberg is said to have created was small metal pieces with raised backwards letters, arranged in a frame, coated with ink, and pressed to a piece of paper, which allowed books to be printed more quickly. But Choe Yun-ui did that—and he did it 150 years before Gutenberg was even born -
Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially: The Gutenberg press.
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In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family's country home. -
Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" Taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23, and recorded on a paper tape, the phrase had been suggested to Morse by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend.