Timeline by ashlee

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  • May 20, 1500

    16th century

    16th century BC The Phoenicians develop an alphabet

  • 1831

    1831 Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph

  • 1843

    1843 Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line

  • 1843

    1843 Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line

  • 1844

    1844 Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply

  • 1849

    1849 Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers

  • 1876

    1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston

  • 1877

    1877 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

  • 1889

    1889 Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone

  • 1901

    1901 Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland

  • 1925

    1925 John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal

  • 1942

    1942 Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique.

  • 1947

    1947 Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell- based approach which leads to "cellular phones"

  • 1949

    1949 Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

  • 1958

    1958 Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use

  • 1963

    1963 First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article

  • 1966

    1966 Charles Kao realizes that silica- based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection

  • 1969

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

  • 1971

    1971 Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

  • 1977

    1977 Donald Knuth begins work on TeX

  • 1989

    1989 Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN

  • 1991

    1991 Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fibre with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second

  • 1992

    1992 Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).