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Telegraph
1849 Antonio Meucci invents the first device to electronically transmit the human voice (i.e., phone). It flopped because to hear, users had to put the receiver in their mouth. 1866 First transatlantic telecommunication is made. 1876 Alexander Bell and Elisha Gray independently invent the telephone -
First Telephone created
Alexander Bell was busy realizing a dream that he hoped would once again revolutionize communication. Bell was always on the lookout for evidence of the new and interesting. Bell observed that sound vibrations could be transmitted through the air, and received at the same pitch in another room. Bell wanted to transfer sound and pitch across a wire and ascertained that this would be possible by reproducing sound waves in a continuous current. After a few errors and the modern telephone was born. -
First Printing Press
Johann Gutenberg revolutionized the way books were made forever. An inventor born in Germany, Gutenberg had a vision of a device that would utilized movable type using blocks with pre-printed text. This method, combined with the use of paper, ink and a printing press allowed for books to be mass-produced, and greatly reduced the price. Gutenberg made his first device by adapting a wine press to remove the water from paper after printing. -
Early Handwritten Documents/Books
The word “manuscript” is derived from the Latin term “libri manu scripti” which translates to “book written by hand”. Most handwritten manuscripts were written on vellum as paper was not widely available. The majority of books and documents written were of a religious nature. This was due to the fact that writing a religious piece was viewed as a form of worship, and also that most books were written by monks in monasteries. Literacy rates were incredibly low during the time of handwritten book. -
Oldest Known Communication
The oldest-known forms of writing were primarily logographic in nature, based on pictographic and ideographic elements. ... The first writing system is generally believed to have been invented in pre-historic Sumer and developed by the late 3000's BC into cuneiform. -
First letter sent through computer
The first recorded handwritten letter sent over computer was by Persian Queen Atossa around 1956 The stamped letter we know today came into being in the reign of Queen Victoria in 1840. Before this date letters did not have stamps or envelopes and the receiver of the letter had to pay on its receipt. -
first letter sent over web
UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline were ready to attempt the first transmission that would travel a few hundred miles up California to Stanford. The message wasn't meant to be anything fancy, simply the word "login." But they didn't quite make it there.
They succeeded in transmitting the "l" and the "o," but then an event familiar to anyone who has used the internet happened: the system crashed. -
First Email sent
Ray Tomlinson is generally credited as having sent the first email across a network, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine in 1971, when he sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation DEC-10 computer to another DEC-10.