timeline on communication

  • Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter.

  • Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line.

  • Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.

  • Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone

  • Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.

  • Samuel Morse invents Morse code.

  • Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.

  • United States starts the Pony Express for mail delivery.Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen.

  • American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.

  • Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books.

  • Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion.

  • Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again.

  • George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.

  • Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • First regular comic books

  • First regular comic books