Digital Communications

  • Semaphore Telegraph

    Semaphore Telegraph
    Claude Chappe invented the first long-distance telegraph. Using a telescope, they would read a message, then pass it to the next tower.
  • Camera

    Camera
    Joseph Nicephorus Niepce invented the first camera. He invented the camera to be able to take pictures of things, so now we can go back to pictures taken from the past.
  • Computer

    Computer
    The first computer was made by Charles Babbage. The computer was made to automate mathematical calculations that were previously completed by people.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    The telegraph made by Samuel Morse was used to communicate text messages more rapidly than by physical transportation.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Gram Bell invented the first telephone. The simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice.
  • Radio

    Radio
    Guglielmo Marconi invented the first radio. People used to use the radio for entertainment and would all sit around the radio and listen to the news.
  • Television

    Television
    Philo Taylor Farnsworth was the main inventor of the first television. The television was made so people could capture moving images, transform those images into code, then move those images in radio waves to various devices.
  • PowerBook

    PowerBook
    The PowerBook was made to incorporate SCSI Disk Mode, which allowed it to be used as an external hard disk on a desktop Macintosh.
  • MP3 Player

    MP3 Player
    The mp3 Player was made to reduce audio file size, and keep the sound quality of the original uncompressed recording.
  • iPhone

    iPhone
    The iPhone was designed by Steve Jobs, he designed the iPhone to be a super slick phone, and because he hated a guy at Microsoft.