Timeline By Tasha

By that'skool
  • May 20, 600

    copper plate scrolls

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

    Paper is introduced

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

    wooden block

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

    printing press

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

    signals

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

  • first long- distance semaphore telegraph line

    Claude Chappe establishes the first long- distance semaphore telegraph line

  • electric telegraph

    Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph

  • Morse code

    Samuel Morse develops the Morse code

  • Samuel Morse

    Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line

  • produces paper from a wood pulp

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

  • pony express to carry latest news

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

  • patents the phonograph

    Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

  • exhibit an electric telephone

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

  • direct dial telephone

    Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone

  • transmits radio signals

    Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland

  • first television signal

    John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal

  • island of Capri

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

  • spread spectrum communication technique

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

  • "cellular phones"

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

  • "father of information theory"

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

  • first photocopier

    Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use

  • geosynchronous communications

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

  • Charles Kao

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

  • ARPANET

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

  • telephone traffic

    Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for .

  • TeX

    Donald Knuth begins work on TeX

  • prototype system

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

  • Anders Olsson

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

  • SMS

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

  • invents paper

    Tsai Lun invents paper