ben sherrill, History of Communications

  • Feb 15, 1446

    Johannes Gutenberg

    introduuces movable type printing press in Germany
  • Feb 8, 1450

    The Printing Press

    Johann Gutenburg invented an actual printing press 1450 Gutenburg was the frist to use a press to print the Bible, the oldest full lenght volume printed. From Gutenburg's printing spread all over Europe
  • Feb 15, 1468

    William Caxton

    produces a book in England with the first printed advertisement
  • Newspaoer

    First newspaper in Europe
  • Typewriter

    in 1714 an Englisham, Henry Mil received the frist patent for a Typewiter
  • Ben Franklin

    founds first public library
  • African Almanacn

    First african almanacn newpaper [freedom's Journal
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph 1832 Smauel Mores invents Mores Code.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston in 1876 . One hunderd twentry yreas later there are over 360 million telephone numbers, and that figure grows each year
  • Computer

    Computer
    1951, The first commmercially available, " mass produced" electroniccomputer entered the marked The computer was manufacured in the United States. Enlac frist computer Enlac (u of pal) big as a 5 room house
  • Onilne Sources

    Onilne Sources
    in 1973 a global computrer network emerged providing a variety of information and communication facilites These interconnected networks use standardized communication protocols
  • Alphabet

    Alphabet
    A set of letters or symbols in a fixed oreder used to represent the bacis sounds of a language in particular , the set of letters from A to Z 1700 BC
  • pictograms

    pictograms
    9,000 BC saw the development that represent an object or an idea
  • Ideogram

    Ideogram
    A written character that symbolizes the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it e.g numerals and Chinese characters
  • Writing

    Writing
    a sequence of letters, words, or symbols marked on paper or other surface appeared around 2700 BC
  • Email

    Email
    Short for "electronic Mall" email is a means of sending messages online Email also allows you to send files as attachments to email messages.
  • Ben Franklin

    prints money after calling for paper currency [A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency