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  Created by Johannes Gutenberg it enabled for a mass production of books and dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.
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  Charles Wheatstone,William Cooke, and Samuel Morse collaborated to invent the electric telegraph and Morse code.
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  Alexander Grahm Bell created the early telephone which enabled one to communicate sound over large distances.
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  Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert develeope the SMS concept in the Franco German GSM cooperation.
 Together they created the blueprint for the first text message delieved in 1992.
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  Before the iPhone the first handheld cell phone was created by Martin Cooper in 1973.
 Apple then released the touch screen phone in 2007
