communication timeline through history

BY: ARJO & CJ

Communication Timeline through history

3500 BC

Sumerians record pictographs representing word on clay tablets

http://www.betnahrain.org/glossary/clay_tablet/tablets.htm

http://www.betnahrain.org/glossary/clay_tablet/tablets.htm

45,000 BC

Man carves a picture on a woolly mammoth tooth

http://www.paleodirect.com/woolymammoth1.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/fOHni6-4SD2VzgqFEYXeMQ

1450

Johann Gutenburg invents a printing press using movable metal type.

http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Gutenberg.htm

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/press.html

1792

Mechanical semaphore is invented in France

http://www.gharghur.gov.mt/kportal/portal.asp?module=content&ID=281

http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Semaphore_2006_8.pdf

1924

Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines

http://www.telephonelines.net/

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/telephone.htm

1972

The first E-mail messages are sent

http://email.about.com/cs/emailhistory/a/first_email.htm

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/firstemail.html

1990

Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.

http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/web.html

http://www.w3.org/

1877

Thomas Edison invents the phonograph

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edcyldr.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_phongrph_1.html

1877

First tape recorded voice by Thomas Edison

http://www.quido.cz/objevy/magnetofon.a.htm

http://www.quido.cz/objevy/magnetofon.a.htm

1963

First communications satellite is launched, allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 Olympics

http://www.olympic.org/tokyo-1964-summer-olympics

http://news.yahoo.com/us-air-force-launches-advanced-communications-satellite-184651299.html

1982

The first cell phones are on sale

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432915/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/first-cell-phone-true-brick/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432915/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/first-cell-phone-true-brick/

2010

iPad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

communication timeline through history

Documents

thomas edison

bc man

clay tablets

printing press

johann gutenburg

arjo cj communication

woolly mammoth tooth

movable metal type