Evolution of communication

By jdejot777

  • First Telegraph was sent

  • Pony Express was created

    It was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California.

  • First telephone call

    Bell makes the first two-way long distance telephone call between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Morse Code

    British physicist Sir Oliver Lodge demonstrated the reception of Morse code signaling using radio waves using a "coherer"

  • First radio audio broadcasting

    Reginald Fessenden used an Alexanderson alternator and rotary spark-gap transmitter to make the first radio audio broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.

  • First transcontinental telephone call

    The first transcontinental telephone call, with Thomas Augustus Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco receiving a call from Alexander Graham Bell at 15 Dey Street in New York City.

  • First Live TV Image

    John Baird achieves the first live television image with tone graduations in his laboratory.

  • First public TV broadcast

    Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson performs the first successful public television broadcast. The sound was transmitted over the WGY radio station.

  • First color TV

    John Logie Baird demonstrates a color television system achieved by using a scanning disc with spirals of red, green and blue filters at the transmitting and receiving ends

  • Creation of ARPANET

    First interconnected networking system, the link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute on 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969.

  • First email

    Created and sent by Ray Thomlinson, a computer engineer working under ARPAnet.

  • Creation of the World Wide Web

    Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web: the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 0.9, the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the first Web browser (named WorldWideWeb, which was also a Web editor), the first HTTP server software (later known as CERN httpd), the first web server (http://info.cern.ch), and the first Web pages that described the project itself.

  • First text message

    The first SMS ever sent was by Brit Neil Papworth who texted ‘Happy Christmas’ to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis at a staff Christmas party.

  • iphone was created

    The iPhone started shipping