Timeline of communication technology

Timeline of communication technology

Timeline of communication technology
* Prior to 3500BC Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.
* 3500s BC - The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing
* 1500s BC - The Phoenicians develop an alphabet
* 26-37 - Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun
* 105 - Tsai Lun invents paper
* 600s - Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media
* 751 - Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas
* 794 - The first paper mill is built by Muslim engineers in Baghdad, Iraq
* 1305 - The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing
* 1450 - Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type
* 1520 - Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.
* 1793 - Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line
* 1831 - Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph
* 1835 - Samuel Morse develops the Morse code
* 1843 - Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line
* 1844 - Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply
* 1849 - Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers
* 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston
* 1877 - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
* 1889 - Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone
* 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland
* 1925 - John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal
* 1942 - Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique
* 1947 - Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs proposed a cell-based approach which lead to "cellular phones"
* 1949 - Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
* 1958 - Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use
* 1963 - First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article
* 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 - Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.
* 1977 - Donald Knuth begins work on TeX
* 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN
* 1991 - Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second
* 1994 - Internet2 organization created


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Technology — By the mid 20th century, humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the atmosphere of the Earth for the first time and explore space. Technology …   Wikipedia

  • History of technology — The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques. Background knowledge has enabled people to create new things, and conversely, many scientific endeavors have become possible through technologies which assist… …   Wikipedia

  • Timeline of quantum computing — Timeline of quantum computers1970s* 1970 Stephen Wiesner invents conjugate coding.* 1973 Alexander Holevo publishes a paper showing that n qubits cannot carry more than n classical bits of information (a result known as Holevo s theorem or Holevo …   Wikipedia

  • Timeline of computing 1950–1979 — History of computing Hardware before 1960 Hardware 1960s to present Hardware in Soviet Bloc countries Artificial intelligence Computer science Operating systems Programming languages …   Wikipedia

  • Timeline of largest projects in the Russian economy — Moscow International Business Center under construction …   Wikipedia

  • Timeline of radio — The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer… …   Wikipedia

  • Technology in Revelation Space — This article lists elements of technology in the fictional Revelation Space universe created by Alastair Reynolds. Contents 1 Abstractions and entoptics 2 Cache Weapons 3 Conjoiner Drive 4 …   Wikipedia

  • Timeline of the future in forecasts — This timeline of the future in forecasts is a timeline of credible forecasts of near future events and developments in all areas of science, technology, society and the environment.Forecasting informs the planning and policy making processes… …   Wikipedia

  • Technology during World War II — World War II seriesv · d · e …   Wikipedia

  • Timeline of historic inventions — The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions. Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”