History of Communication Timeline

Communication Technology Timeline:

• Before 3500BC, paintings made by indigenous tribes were the means of communication
• 3500 BC - Cuneiform writing was developed by the Sumerians, while the Egyptians developed what is known as hieroglyphic writing
• 1500s BC - An alphabet was developed by the Phoenicians
• 26-37 - Roman Emperor Tiberius rules Capri with the help of messages sent through metal mirrors reflected the sun
• 105 - Paper is invented by Tsai Lun
• 600s - Hindu-Malayan empires use scrolls made out of copper to write legal document; other documents are written on perishable surfaces
• 751 - Following the Battle of Talas, paper is brought into the Islamic world for the first time
• 1305 - Type printing is invented by the Chinese, who use a wooden movable block to do the printing
• 1450 - Johannes Gutenberg then invents the printing press
• 1520 - Maritime communication starts when Ferdinand Magellan undertakes a voyage and the ships in the fleet fire cannons and raise flags into order to communicate with each other.
• 1793 - The first semaphore telegraph line for long distance communication is built by Claude Chappe
• 1831 - An electric telegraph is proposed and then built by Joseph Henry
• 1835 - The Morse code is born, thanks to Samuel Morse
• 1843 - The very first electric telegraph line for long distance communication is built by Samuel Morse
• 1844 - Using wood pulp, Charles Fenerty produces paper for the very first time
• 1849 - Pony Express in Nova Scotia is organized by Associated Press, which would bring the latest news from Europe to New York so that the newspaper could print this news
• 1876 - An electric telephone is exhibited in Boston by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson
• 1877 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison
• 1889 - The direct dial telephone is patented by Almon Strowger
• 1901 - Radio signals are transmitted from Cornwall to Newfoundland by Guglielmo Marconi
• 1925 - The first television signal is transmitted by John Baird
• 1942 - Frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique is invented by Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil
• 1947 - A cell based approach to the telephone, which would eventually lead to “cellular phones", is proposed by Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs
• 1949 - The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem is mathematically proven by Claude Elwood Shannon
• 1958 - Chester Carlson introduces the first photocopy machine for office use
• 1963 - Launch of the world’s first geosynchronous communications satellite
• 1966 - Charles Kao finds out that optical waveguides that are silica-based can offer a useful way of transmitting light, through total internal reflection
• 1969 - The first hosts of Internet’s ancestor, ARPANET, are connected.
• 1971 - An automated switching system made for telephones is invented by Erna Schneider Hoover
• 1977 - Donald Knuth starts work on TeX
• 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau introduced a prototype system that later was known as the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN
• 1991 - Solitary waves transmitted by Anders Olsson with the help of an optical fiber, recording a data rate of 32 billion bits per second
• 1994 - The world is given the Internet2 organization
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