Progression of Technology

Printing Press

Apr 19, 1450

Created by Johannes Gutenberg it enabled for a mass production of books and dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.

Telegraphs

Apr 19, 1800

Charles Wheatstone,William Cooke, and Samuel Morse collaborated to invent the electric telegraph and Morse code.

Telephone

Apr 19, 1878

Alexander Grahm Bell created the early telephone which enabled one to communicate sound over large distances.

short-messaging system (SMS)

Apr 27, 1984

Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert develeope the SMS concept in the Franco German GSM cooperation.
Together they created the blueprint for the first text message delieved in 1992.

iPhone

Jun 29, 2007

Before the iPhone the first handheld cell phone was created by Martin Cooper in 1973.
Apple then released the touch screen phone in 2007