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  • May 20, 600

    Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media

    Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media
  • May 20, 751

    Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas

    Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas
  • May 20, 1305

    The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing

    The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing
  • May 20, 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type

    Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type
  • May 20, 1520

    Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.

    Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.

  • Claude Chappe establishes the first long- distance semaphore telegraph line

    Claude Chappe establishes the first long- distance semaphore telegraph line

  • Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph

    Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph

  • Samuel Morse develops the Morse code

    Samuel Morse develops the Morse code

  • Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line

    Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line

  • Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply

    Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply

  • Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers

    Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers

  • Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston

    Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston

  • Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

    Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

  • Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone

    Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone

  • Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland

    Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland

  • John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal

    John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal

  • Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signalling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun

    Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signalling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun

  • Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signalling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun

    Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signalling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun

  • Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique

    Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique

  • Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell- based approach which leads to "cellular phones"

    Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell- based approach which leads to "cellular phones"

  • Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

    Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

  • Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use

    Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use

  • First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article

    First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article

  • Charles Kao realizes that silica- based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection

    Charles Kao realizes that silica- based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection

  • The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.

    The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.

  • Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

    Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

  • Donald Knuth begins work on TeX

    Donald Knuth begins work on TeX

  • Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN

    Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN

  • Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fibre with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second

    Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fibre with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second

  • Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).

    Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).

  • Tsai Lun invents paper

    Tsai Lun invents paper