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Feb 4, 1446
Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg introduces moveable type printing press in Germany. -
News Paper
First newspapers in Europe -
origin of ideogram
ideograms are written characters that represent an idea without the use of sounds such as the way we do in modern speaking. Ideograms along with pictograms can relate to early egyptian, sumerian, etc. glyphs. -
Telegraph
Samuel Morse ivented the telegraph which made communication allowed by specific series of beeps such as the SOS morse code signal. -
Typewriter
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the teephone in 1876, allowing for communication from further distances. -
phonograph
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. -
radio
In 1894, Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio. -
National Geographic
Gilbert Grosvenor introduced photographs to National Geographic in 1899. -
television
television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s -
Audio tape
In the 1940s, Audiotape was developed in Germany. -
Peral harbor
in 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the bombing was reported over radio, and this event soon after led us to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima -
ENIAC Computer
The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. -
Elvis Presley
In 1956, Elivs Presley recieved his first gold record (over 1 million sold). -
FM radio
the 1960s marked the rise of FM radio. -
The Beatles
The Beatles, perhaps the most iconic music group to live, performed in the US and took rock music global -
E-mail
Ray Tomlinson is generally credited as having sent the first email across a network, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine in 1971, when he sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation DEC-10 computer to another DEC-10. -
DOT Pictogram
The DOT pictograms in the United States came from a 1974 finding by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), which recognized that a standardized set of roadside pictograms were needed for the United States Interstate Highway System. Pictograms however could be found as early as 3400 BCE. -
internet
the term internet was first used. internet allows people to get online for information rather than by book or from person to person. -
microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul allen, co-founders of Microsoft -
VCR
in 1975, VCRs were introduced, the main concern being the need to rewind to start the tape over again. -
Apple
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, co-founders of Apple Computer, Inc. -
CDs
CDs were introduced in 1982, bringing media and information to another platform -
hologram
i feel that by at least 2020 someone will create some sort of holographic device to be used for communication, allowing to see a person without the use of video chats, even though they are at a distance.
