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EARLY COMMUNICATION
People painted onto the walls of caves and
canyons to tell stories about their culture.

CAVE DRAWING

STORYTELLING

This was a way for families and

communities to pass their
information.
SMOKE

These were ways to send signals

to neighbouring tribes and groups.
DRUMS

3500 2900
BC

Alphabet-invented by The
Phoenician
Cuneiform writing- invented by The
Sumerians
Hieroglyphic writing- invented by
Egyptians
CuneiformThe
script

Hieroglyphic writing
500 170
BC

The Egyptians invented papyrus

rolls and early parchments made
from dried reeds- the first portable
and light writing surface

105 AD

Tsai Lun of China invented

paper

305 AD

1049

China- first wooden printing

presses was invented (symbol
carved on a wooded block)

China first movable type

made from clay was invented
by Pi Sheng

Wooden letters stock

Printing presses

145
0

145
5

171
4

Newspapers were widely appear

in Europe

Johannes Gutenberg invented a

metal movable type printing press

Englishman, Henry Mill received the

first patent for a typewriter
181 Joseph Nicephore Niepce
4
achieved the first photographic
image

1821

Printing presses
machine by
Johannes
Charles Wheatstone reproduced in a Gutenberg

primitive sound box- the first

microphone

1831 Joseph Henry invented the first

electric telegraph
183 Samuel Morse invented
5
Morse code
184 Samuel Morse invented the first long distance
3
electric telegraph line
Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine
186 United State started Pony Express for
1
mail delivery
186 America- Sholes, the first successful and
7
modern typewriter

telegraph

Stamp used for pony express

typewriter

187
6
187
7

Alexander Graham Bell patents the

electric telephone
Eadweard Muybridge invented the high speed
photography- creating first moving pictures
that captured motion
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph- with
wax cylinder as recording medium
1898 First telephone answering
First telephone
machine was invented.

189
9

Valdemar Pulsen invented the first magnetic

recordings- using magnetized steel tape as
recording medium.
Loudspeakers invented

190
2
192
3

Guglielmo Marconi transmitted radio signals

from Cornwall to Newfoundland- the first
radio signal across Atlantic Ocean
Radio signals
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin invented the
television or iconoscope ( cathode-ray
tube)- first television camera

192 First television broadcast

7
in England
193 Videophone was
television
0
invented
1938
195
1
195
4

Televisions able to be taped and edited-rather

than only live.
Computers are first sold
commercially

Color television broadcast

standards are set in the U.S..
Worlds first computer

195
8

Chester Carlson invented the

photocopier
First photocopier
rocket

1959

19
66

U.S. and Russian rockets sent

information back to earth from
First fax machine
distances beyond the moon.
Xerox invented the Telecopier- first
successful fax machine
196 ARPANET- the first internet
9
started
197 Japan- first cellular phone
9
communication network started
History of cellular phone

First Sony Walkman

198
1
1983
199
8

1980 Sony Walkman

invented

First laptop computers sold

to public
First cellular phone started in the
United States
Satellite phones were
invented

Satellite phones

First laptop

SOURCES:
www.wikipedia.com
www.library.thinkquest.org
www.msn.com
http://www.romeinspompeii.net/vindolanda.html

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