Breauna Reece - History of Communications By breece Period: Feb 4, 1400 to Feb 4, 2016 History Communications Feb 4, 1446 Johannes Gutenburg invents printing press Feb 4, 1500 Semites devise the alphabet Feb 8, 1609 First newspaper in Europe Feb 12, 1638 Puritans establish Cambridge Press Feb 8, 1690 Ben Harris prints first Colonial newspaper Feb 8, 1714 Henry Mill recieved the first patent for a type writer Feb 12, 1729 Ben Franlin prints money after calling for paper currency Feb 12, 1789 Sedition Act Feb 8, 1836 William McGuffey begins writing reading textbooks Feb 5, 1844 First telegraph line set by Samuel Morse Feb 5, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone Feb 8, 1877 Thomas Edison invents the phonograph Feb 8, 1944 First large automatic digital computer is built at Harvard Feb 5, 1970 Email is developed Feb 5, 1986 MCI Mail, first commercial email service Feb 5, 1991 Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web Feb 8, 2016 IPhone 6 plus was invented Feb 12, 2016 IPhone 7 invented