great moments in communications

By 14guinw
  • Jan 1, 1450

    printing press

    printing press
    Johann Gutenburg invents a printing press using movable metal type.

  • newspapers published

    Early newspapers are published in Germany

  • mechanical semaphore

    mechanical semaphore
    Mechanical semaphore is invented in france.

  • ada byron writes first computer program

    Ada Byron, a mathmatician, writes the worlds first computer program for a computing machine designed by Charles Babbage but never built.

  • Samuel Morse invents telegraph

    Samuel Morse invents telegraph that can send short and long beeps calle"dots" and "dashes"

  • first successful transmission

    first successful transmission over transatlantic cable.

  • First telephone

    First telephone
    Alaxander Graham Bell invents the telephone transmitting the sound of the voice clearly over electrical wires

  • phonograph invneted

    phonograph invneted
    Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, a device to record sound on a wax cylinder.

  • first long distance call made

    first long distance phone calls are made

  • first radio signal sent across the Atlantic Ocean

    Gugliemro Marconi sends the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean

  • pictures transmited over telephone lines

    Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines

  • first television sets

    first television sets
    Very first few homes get television sets to watch broadcast programs

  • first communication satellite is launched

    first communication satellite is launched allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 Olympics

  • internent is invented

    The internent is invented by the U.S. government as a means of military communication

  • first email sent

    the first email messages are sent

  • personal computer invented

    the personal computer, both small and powerful, is invented

  • first emoticon used in email

    first emoticon used in email
    the first emoticon is used in an email message

  • first celll phones available for sale

    first celll phones available for sale
    the first cell phones are available for sale.

  • world wide web

    Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web

  • first browser program

    Marc Andeeson creates the first program allowing people to navigate the Web