history of communication technology
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HISTORY OF
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
EARLY COMMUNICATION
CAVE DRAWING
People painted onto the walls of caves and canyons to tell stories about their culture.
STORYTELLING
This was a way for families and communities to pass their information.
DRUMS
SMOKE
These were ways to send signals to neighbouring tribes and groups.
3500 – 2900 BC Alphabet-invented by The PhoenicianCuneiform writing- invented by The SumeriansHieroglyphic writing- invented by The Egyptians
500 – 170 BC The Egyptians invented papyrus rolls and early parchments made from dried reeds- the first portable and light writing surface
Cuneiform script
Hieroglyphic writing
105 AD Tsai Lun of China invented paper
305 AD China- first wooden printing presses was invented (symbol carved on a wooded block)
1049 China – first movable type made from clay was invented by Pi Sheng
Wooden letters stock
Printing presses
1450 Newspapers were widely appear in Europe
1455 Johannes Gutenberg invented a metal movable type printing press
Printing presses machine by Johannes Gutenberg
1714 Englishman, Henry Mill received the first patent for a typewriter
1814 Joseph Nicephore Niepce achieved the first photographic image
1821 Charles Wheatstone reproduced in a primitive sound box- the first microphone
1831 Joseph Henry invented the first electric telegraph
1835 Samuel Morse invented Morse code
1843 Samuel Morse invented the first long distance electric telegraph lineAlexander Bain patents the first fax machine
1861 United State started Pony Express for mail delivery
1867 America- Sholes, the first successful and modern typewriter
telegraphStamp used for pony express
typewriter
1877 Eadweard Muybridge invented the high speed photography- creating first moving pictures that captured motionThomas Edison patents the phonograph- with wax cylinder as recording medium
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone
First telephone1898 First telephone answering machine was
invented.
1899 Valdemar Pulsen invented the first magnetic recordings- using magnetized steel tape as recording medium.Loudspeakers invented
1902 Guglielmo Marconi transmitted radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland- the first radio signal across Atlantic Ocean
1923 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin invented the television or iconoscope ( cathode-ray tube)- first television camera
1927 First television broadcast in England
1930 Videophone was invented
1938 Televisions able to be taped and edited-rather than only live.
television
Radio signals
1951 Computers are first sold commercially
World’s first computer
1954 Color television broadcast standards are set in the U.S..
1958 Chester Carlson invented the photocopier
1966 Xerox invented the Telecopier- first successful fax machine
1969 ARPANET- the first internet started
1979 Japan- first cellular phone communication network started
1959 U.S. and Russian rockets sent information back to earth from distances beyond the moon.
First photocopier
rocket
First fax machine
History of cellular phone
1980 Sony Walkman invented
1981 First laptop computers sold to public
1983 First cellular phone started in the United States
1998 Satellite phones were invented
First Sony Walkman
First laptop
Satellite phones
SOURCES:www.wikipedia.comwww.library.thinkquest.orgwww.msn.comhttp://www.romeinspompeii.net/vindolanda.html
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