Technology

By mariaclarachen

  • Electrochemical Telegraph

    Electrochemical Telegraph
    Samuel Thomas van Soemmering creates the electrochemical telegraph, a form of communication with basis on an electrochemical current.

  • First Telegraph Message

    First Telegraph Message
    Samuel Morse developed the Morse code, which assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet, allowing for the transmission of messages. In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.

  • First Sent Fax

    First Sent Fax
    In 1860, the "Pantelegraph" - a fax machine invented by Giovanni Caselli - sent the first fax between Paris and Lyon.

  • First Sucessful Telephone Call

    First Sucessful Telephone Call
    Alexander Graham Bell had the first successful telephone call with his assistant, to which he supposedly said, according to his journal, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you". Bell had been working on developing the telephone for several years.

  • First Successful Radio Transmission

    First Successful Radio Transmission
    Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi was responsible for the first successful radio transmission, sending a message across the Atlantic Ocean, which traveled more than 2,000 miles from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada.

  • First ATM

    First ATM
    The world's first Automated Teller Machine was invented and installed in London in the year of 1967. The machine used PIN (personal identification number) codes.

  • The First E-mail

    The First E-mail
    The first e-mail was a self-adressed message sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. Despite holding the iconic position of having sent the first e-mail, Tomlinson claims the message was "entirely forgettable", as it held no substantial content and was just a test.

  • First Domain Registered

    First Domain Registered
    The first domain name ever registered on the internet was www.symbolics.com, by the Symbolics Computer Corporation in Massachusetts.

  • WWW Goes public

    WWW Goes public
    The World Wide Web was initially projected as a medium for physicists around the world to share information, which later evolved into the concept of a World Wide Web, which in theory would be a web interconnected by hypertext links. It went public on 1991 with little public awareness and popularity, but grew to what is the most important and efficient mean of communication in the 21st century, indispensable to our everyday lives.

  • No-Touch Interfaces

    No-Touch Interfaces
    The development of new technology, reflected today in our mobile devices by programs like "Siri", we can see that technology is shaping around our needs rather than the other way around. Technological gadgets are becoming more adaptable and independent, allowing them to be navigated with more ease and continuing to facilitate our daily lives in various degrees.