Communication timeline By Shae Aarts

By Shae98
  • May 22, 1305

    wooden block movable type printing

    The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing
  • May 22, 1450

    printing

    Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type
  • May 22, 1520

    firing cannon

    Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.

  • long- distance semaphore telegraph line

    Claude Chappe establishes the first long- distance semaphore telegraph line

  • electric telegraph

    Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph

  • Morse code

    Samuel Morse develops the Morse code

  • electric telegraph line

    Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line

  • paper

    Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply

  • pony express

    Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers

  • electric telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston

  • phonograph

    Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

  • telephone

    Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone

  • radio signals

    Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland

  • Television signal

    John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal

  • spectrum communication technique

    Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique

  • cellular phones

    Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell- based approach which leads to "cellular phones"

  • father of information theory

    Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorey

  • Photocopier

    Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use

  • geosynchronous communications satellite

    First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article

  • optical waveguides

    Charles Kao realizes that silica- based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection

  • Internet

    The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.

  • Computerized system for telephone traffic

    Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

  • Works on text

    Donald Knuth begins work on Text

  • Built the prototype system

    Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN

  • Transmits solitary waves

    Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fibre with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second

  • First SMS sent

    Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).