digital communication

  • Morse telegraph

    Morse telegraph

    In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland; by 1866, a telegraph line had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. to Europe.
  • Atlantic telegraph cable

    Atlantic telegraph cable

    In 1866, the British ship Great Eastern succeeded in laying the first permanent telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean. Cyrus West Field was the object of much praise on both sides of the Atlantic for his persistence in accomplishing what many thought to be an impossible undertaking.
  • First telephone

    First telephone

    On 7 March 1876, Bell was granted US patent 174465A, for a method of transmitting speech by telegraphy—the telephone.
  • first radio communication by voice

    first radio communication by voice

    On December 24, 1906, at 9 PM EST, Reginald transmitted the first human voice over the radio from Brant Rock, Massachusetts to ships in the Atlantic owned by the United Fruit Company.
  • First television!

    First television!

    Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
  • SIGSALY secure speech system

    SIGSALY secure speech system

    1943 The SIGSALY secure speech system performs the first digital voice transmission, used for high-level Allied communications during World War II. June 25, 1945 John von Neumann's A First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is distributed to 24 people working on the development of the EDVAC, one of the earliest computers.
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET

    in 1969 the digital Arpanet was created.
  • Birth of the internet!

    Birth of the internet!

    ARPANET was a great success but membership was limited to certain academic and research organizations who had contracts with the Defense Department. In response to this, other networks were created to provide information sharing. January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet.
  • First built computer

    First built computer

    The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built until 1991 , Alan Turing invented computer science. The ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose digital computer, it filled a room.
  • YouTube!

    YouTube!

    in 2005 YouTube was created