Telecommunication inventions

Computer, Charles Babagge

1833

Electronic machine which is able to store information and processing it automatically through mathematical operations controlled by computer programs.

Telegraph, Samuel Morse

1844

Device used to communicate at a distance. It uses electricity to send coded messages through the wires.

Telephone, Antonio Meucci

1854

Device that transmits sounds through a cable with electrical signals.

Radio, Guglielmo Marconi

1901

Media of communication which is based on the sending of audio signals through radio waves.

Television, Jhon Logie Baird

1926

Transmission of images and sound remotely via radio waves

Tablet, Alan Kay

1968

Mobile computing device in which the touch screen occupies almost its entire size and in which there is no physical keyboard.

Mobile phone, Martin Cooper

1973

Portable device that can make or receive calls through a radio frequency carrier, while the user is moving.