great moments in communications

  • Jan 6, 1450

    printing press

    printing press
    Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.
  • Newspapers Published

  • Mechanical Semaphore

  • Computer Program

    Program built for computer built by Ada Byron
  • telegragh

    Samuel Morse invents a telegragh than can send short and long beeps called dots and dashes
  • Transatlantic cable

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone transmittin the sound of the voice clearly over electical wires
  • Phonogragh

    Phonogragh
    device to record sound on a wax cylinder
  • first phone calls were made

    First long distance phone calls were made
  • radio signal

    Gugliermo marconi sends the first radio signal across the atlantic ocean
  • Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines

    Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines
  • Television

    Television
    Very first few homes get television sets to watch broadcast programs
  • satellite communication

    First communications satellite is lanunched allowing worldwide likve broadcast of the 1964 Olympics
  • Internet

    The internet is invented by the u.s. goverment as a means of military communication
  • e-mail

    The first e-mail messages are sent
  • personal computer

    The personal computer both samll and powerful is invented
  • emotiction

    emotiction
    The first emotiction is used in an e-mail
  • cell phone

    The first cell phones are available for sale
  • world wide web

    Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web
  • browser program

    Marc Anderson creates the first browser program allowing people to navigate the web