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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