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Lun Tsai is the inventor of paper. He used materials such as bamboo, tree skin, sheepskin or calfskin. Writing things down on paper was alot easier than in stone or on carving it on walls.
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The phoenician alphabetic script is the ancestor of our modern day alphabet. Phoenicians were the first traveling salesmen and they invented the alphabet as an effective method of record keeping.
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Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and business man who invented a movable type printing press. This invention is what caused the rapid production of books.
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Joseph Henry builds an electric telegraph so that people can communicate with coded text messages.
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The Morse Code was created as a method of transmitting text information through a pattern of lights or clicks that could only be understood by skilled listeners. Thanks to advance technology today, lazy listeners are no longer out of the loop...sometimes.
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Samuel Morris created the first long distance electric telegraph line.
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John Logie Baird televised the first television picture signal. To think it started with one and now there is endless ones.
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It's because of Chester Carlson that production of paperwork is so rapid thanks to his invention of the photocopier. Can you imagine any business office not having one?
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Convenience just got better with talking on the phone when the first cellular telephone service in the United States opened up in Chicago.
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From a personal computer Neil Papworth sends the very first text message to Richard Jarvis but didn't get a response because texting from a phone at the time was not possible.
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Google introduced the world to Google maps which changed life completely as we knew it. From using it for productivity or play, apps have become a way of life for most.
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Hieroglyphics were written on the walls of temples and tombs. It was a form of communication through pictures to record information about the religion or pharaoh.
