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In 105 AD, Ts'ai Lun who was a governmental official was named the first for the paper making industry. http://quatr.us/literature/paper.htm
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A very important event for the world that took place during the Tang (618-906) dynasty was the invention of printing, it was believed that sometime between the 4th and 7th century A.D. It started as blocks cut from wood used to print textiles.
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It is hard to say exactly when the feather or quill pen was created but all roads point to the Dark Ages. Which is around 700 AD
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A system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters. Is know as the Semaphore Telegraph which was invented in 1792 AD
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F. G. Keller was believed to produce enough groundwood pulp to make paper when combined with 40% of the much stronger rag pulp. This began the use of mechanical pulps to make much more cost effective paper.
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In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland
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Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876, invented the telephone which received the US patient number 174,465
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In 1877 the phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound.
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Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
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The internet was created on January 1, 1983. ARPANET adopted TCP/IP since then the world wide web has not been the same.
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The IPhone was invented by Steve Jobs on 2 June 2007. Since then the IPhone has forever changed the technology of how phones are made.
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