Communication In History

Invention of Paper

105

http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/museum_invention_paper.htm T'Sai Lun invents paper. 105 A.D. It was first made from sesame fiber by papermakers. Some papermakers were captured by Arabs, and later paper was produced in the middle east.

Wooden Printing Press

Jan 1, 1440

http://infoage.umwblogs.org/2011/09/27/the-first-printing-press/ First wooden printing presses invented in China - symbols carved on a wooden block. Invented in 305.
Johann Gutenberg invented the first printing press in 1440.

Morse Code

Jan 1, 1844

http://www.nearfieldcommunicationtags.com/telegraph-history.html
Samuel Morse invents the morse code.
Electrical telegraph system that was easy to understand.
Consisted of dots and dashes.
In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland.

Electric Telephone

Mar 10, 1876

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/telephone.htm
A practical telephone was actually invented independently by two men working in the United States, Elisha Gray and Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell. Both men filed for a patent on their designs at the New York patent office on February 14, 1876, with Bell beating Gray by only two hours.
One of the biggest inventions inthe world.

Phonograph

Jan 1, 1877

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edcyldr.html
Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. A system of recording which could record and playback sound over and over again. This invention was developed as a result of Edison's two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone.

Radio Signal

Dec 12, 1901

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt01ma.html
Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1898 he sent a wireless message 18 miles. In 1900 he patented his system.

Invention of the Internet

May 31, 1961

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001016.htm
American government releases control of internet and WWW is born - making communication at lightspeed. The initial idea of who was credited for inventing the internet was for Leonard Kleinrock after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets."