The History of Communication - The Diigo Meta page

• 23 Jul 09
  

  dshaver

  The history of communication from early alphabets to the world wide web.

• 25 Nov 08
  

  Joan Vinall-Cox

  A good and visual summary of human communication

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• 21 Sep 08
  

  Trevor T

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• 29 Jul 08
  

  Conner Huber

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• 19 Feb 08
  

  Jeff Kubina

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• 01 Jun 07
  

  michael krauss

  About.com timeline of communication inventions but goes only to 1990's

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• 25 Mar 07
  

  Lauren

  history

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    1814
    Joseph
    Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic
    image.
    1821
    Charles
    Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first
    microphone.
    1831
    Joseph
    Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
    1835
    Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
    1843
    Samuel
    Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
    
    Alexander Bain patents the first fax
    machine.
    1861
    United States starts the Pony
    Express for mail delivery.
    Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a
    series of still photographs onto a screen. 
    1867
    American, Sholes the first successful and
    modern typewriter. 
    1876
    Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an
    office copying machine.
    Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.
    Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library
    books.
    1877
    Thomas Edison
    patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.
    
    Eadweard
    Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures
    that captured motion.
    1887
    Emile Berliner invents the gramophone
    - a system of recording which could be used over and over
    again.
    1888
    George
    Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.
    1889
    Almon
    Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone
    exchange.
    1894
    Guglielmo
    Marconi improves wireless telegraphy.
    1898
    First telephone
    answering machines.
    1899
    Valdemar
    Poulsen invents the first magnetic recordings - using magnetized steel tape
    as recording medium - the foundation for both mass data storage on disk and tape
    and the music recording industry.
    Loudspeakers invented.
    1902
    Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first
    radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
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