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Put It On Paper
Lun Tsai is the inventor of paper. He used materials such as bamboo, tree skin, sheepskin or calfskin. Writing things down on paper was alot easier than in stone or on carving it on walls. -
Apr 10, 1200
Phoenician Alphabet: The beginning of the ABC's
The phoenician alphabetic script is the ancestor of our modern day alphabet. Phoenicians were the first traveling salesmen and they invented the alphabet as an effective method of record keeping. -
Apr 10, 1450
Start the presses!!!
Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and business man who invented a movable type printing press. This invention is what caused the rapid production of books. -
Let's Play Te-te-te-telegraph!
Joseph Henry builds an electric telegraph so that people can communicate with coded text messages. -
Give me some Morse Code please!
The Morse Code was created as a method of transmitting text information through a pattern of lights or clicks that could only be understood by skilled listeners. Thanks to advance technology today, lazy listeners are no longer out of the loop...sometimes. -
I finally have long distance on my telegraph!
Samuel Morris created the first long distance electric telegraph line. -
I want my first TV!
John Logie Baird televised the first television picture signal. To think it started with one and now there is endless ones. -
Don't copy me...I copy you!
It's because of Chester Carlson that production of paperwork is so rapid thanks to his invention of the photocopier. Can you imagine any business office not having one? -
Can you hear me now?
Convenience just got better with talking on the phone when the first cellular telephone service in the United States opened up in Chicago. -
You got a message!
From a personal computer Neil Papworth sends the very first text message to Richard Jarvis but didn't get a response because texting from a phone at the time was not possible. -
There's an app for that
Google introduced the world to Google maps which changed life completely as we knew it. From using it for productivity or play, apps have become a way of life for most. -
Hieroglyphics: Communicating with art
Hieroglyphics were written on the walls of temples and tombs. It was a form of communication through pictures to record information about the religion or pharaoh.
