ITGS: Create a time line for Mobile communication.

Timeline for Mobile Communication:

3500 BC to 2900 BC: The Phoenicians developed the alphabet. The Sumerians developed cuneiform writing, which is also referred to as pictographs of accounts written on clay tablets. The Egyptians developed hieroglyphic writing

1775 BC: The Greeks used a phonetic alphabet written from the left to the right.

1400 BC: The oldest record of writing in China on bones

1270 BC: The first ever encyclopedia written in Syria

900 BC: The first ever postal service in the benefit of the government of China

776 BC: Homing Pigeons used to send messages across countries

530 BC: The Greeks started the first library

500 BC to 170 BC: the first portable and light writing surfaces

200 BC to 100 BC: Human messengers in Egypt on foot or horseback and China with messenger relay stations built.

14 BC: The Romans established postal services

37 BC: Heliographs- mirrors used to send messages by Roman Emperor

100 BC: First bound books

105 BC: Tsai Lun of China invents paper

305 BC: First wooden printing presses invented in China

1450: Newspapers appear in Europe

1455: Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press with metal movable type

1560: Camera was invented

1650: The first daily newspaper

1714: Typewriter was invented

1793: Long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line

1814: Joseph Nicephone Niepce achieves the first photographic image

1821: Charles Wheatstone invented the first microphone

1831: Joseph Henry invented the first electric telegraph

1835: Samuel Morse invented the Morse Code

1843: Samuel Morse invented the first long distance electric telegraph line. Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine

1861: Pony express for mail delivery in the US, Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope which is a machine that flashes a series of photographs onto a screen

1867: Modern typewriter

1876: Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph which is an office copying machine (Xerox machine). Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.

1877: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph and Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography which was the first moving pictures captured motion

1887: Emile Berliner invented the gramphone which is a system of recording which can be used repeatedly.

1888: George Eastman invented the roll film camera.

1889: Almon Strowger invented the  direct dial telephone

1894: Guglielmo Marconi improved upon the wireless telegraph

1898: The first telephone answering machine was invented

1902: Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals across oceans

1904: The first regular comic book was invented

1906: Lee Deforest invented the electronic amplifying tube

1910: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture

1914: The first continental phone call was made

1916: The first radio with stations

1923: The first CRT television was invented

1926: Warner Brother Studios invented a way to record sound separately from film on large disks

1934: The first tape recorder for broadcasting invented by Joseph Begun

1938: Television broadcasts were taped and edited

1939: Scheduled programs commence

1944: The Age of Computer Science begins- Computer’s like Harvard’s Mark I put into public service- government owned

1948: Transistor invented enabling invention of smaller electronic devices

1951: Computers sold commercially

1963: Zip Codes invented in the US

1966: Telecopier invented by Xerox, the first successful fax machine

1969: ARPANET- the invention of the Internet

1971: The floppy disc was invented

The Microprocessor was invented-considered a computer on a chip

1976: Apple I home computer invented

1979: First cellular phone invented in Japan for communication

1980: Sony Walkman invented

1981: IBM PC sold

First laptop computers sold to public

Computer Mouse becomes an integrated part of a PC

1983: Computer named “man of the year” in time magazines

Cellular network invented by the US

1984: Apple Macintosh released

1985: Cellular telephones in cars become popular

CD-ROMs in computers

1994: American Government released control of the internet and the WWW is born which makes communication possible at lightspeed. 


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