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TIMELINE Of Communication

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4500-3501 B.C.:

·      Body language just as simple gestures was the first type of communication ever used.
·      Speech
·      Neanderthal Men carving messages on a Wooly Mammoth tooth.
·      Then they started engraving symbols on a horse’s pelvic bone; known as Ivory horse, it is the oldest known animal carving.
·      The Cro-Magnon notation also occurred during this time, which probably consisted of the phases of the moon being carved onto bone.
·      In Mesopotamia, tokens were used for accounting and to keep records.

3500-59 B.C:

·      Throughout these times most ways of communication was by drawing picture that represented a code word.
·       In Sumer, pictographs of events were written on clay tablets.
·      Scribes were employed in Egypt.
·      During this time period they invented papyrus paper, and the Phoenician alphabet.
·      Later on during this time a Syrian scholar complied the first encyclopedia.
·      China organized a postal service for government use.
·      In 775 Greeks developed a phonetic alphabet written from left to right.
·       A couple years later a library opened in Greece.
·      During this time period Persia began a form of transporting mail.
·      In 400 they Chinese invented the first writing utensil. It was reeds dipped in pigment, and it was used to write on bamboo.
·      At the end of this time period they began writing books on parchment and vellum.

1-1099 AD:

·      Towards the beginning of this era Roman messengers carry government mail across the empire.
·      Tsai Lun invented paper, and the paper use later on spread to Central Asia and west to Spain.
·      In China they begin to use a seal to stamp official papers just like we do today.
·      The use of paper in China is now becoming more useful as they begin to print books.
·       765 the first picture book was created.
·      At the end of this time period Mayas in Yucatan, Mexico, made writing paper from tree bark.

1100-1399 AD:

·      Chinese sewed pages to make stitched books.
·      The Egyptians were taking the cloth from the mummies and made paper from it.
·      Italians made the first watermarks, which are light patterns that can be shown in the light on paper.
·      Later on Marco Polo describes the use of paper money in China.  Off topic

1400-1599 AD:

·      A few newsletters like bulletins begin circulating in Europe.
·      The K2ing of France established a postal system.
·      Printing books on paper becomes more common in Europe; by the 1500 approximately 35,000 books have been printed.
·      During this time period a paper mill is established in England.
·      In  1533 England also made a postmaster.
·       During the end of this time period they made the first camera that allows precise tracing of an image.

1600's:

·      In the 1600 the first regularly published newspaper appears in Germany.
·       France introduces registered mail.
·      Newspaper is being read as wells as spread out more throughout France, the French begin to add classified advertisement to it.
·      The first printing press happened in the American colonies.
·      People from Paris put their postage-paid letter in mailboxes.
·       In London they get the penny post system of carrying letter at the charge of one penny.
·       Mail is being delivered on a route between New York and Boston.

1700's:

·      Boston begins to print advertisements.
·      In Germany an engraver named Le Blon develops three color printing.
·       Henry Mill receives a license in England for a typewriter.
·      Reaumur proposes using wood to make paper.  
·      Around 1727 Benjamin Franklin makes a library in Philadelphia.  
·      Mailing becomes a common way of communication between people who are far away from each other.
·      Regular mail ship ran between England and the colonies.
·      Steel pen pints begin to replace traditional quill feathers.
·      A Mechanical semaphore signaler which is a system of sending messages by holding the arms or two flags or poles in certain positions according to an alphabetic code is build in France.
·      The first movie theater opens movie theater opens.

1800's:

·      Mailing reduced the amount of time it takes to send letter because now a letter took only 20 days to reach for example from Savannah to Maine.
·      Invented the first papermaking machine.
·      A typewriter for the blind is built.
·       Wheatstone, a man from London, built a microphone.
·      Germany makes a telegraph that runs for nearly two miles.
·      Make a camera that can take pictures, although it took a long time to take them.
·      A printing press is built and they use electricity to run it.
·      Near the end of this time period the first telephone answering machine is created.

1900's:

·      Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland, which was the first radio signal transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean.
·      Thomas Edison demonstrates the first talking motion picture.
·      The first cross continental telephone call is made.
·       The first radio with different radio stations is also created.  
·      Warner Brothers Studios invented a way to record sound separately from the film on large disks and put the sound and motion pictures together.
·      John Logie Baird transmits the first experimental television signal.
·      NBC starts two audio networks and CBS is created.
·      The first television broadcasts in England as well as in the United States.
·      Television broadcasts eventually begin more frequently and become scheduled.
·      Computers are made, and later on after a few years of its making it is first sold commercially.
·      First fax machine.
·      The first Internet is created and called Arpanet.
·       Make a floppy disc.
·      Invent a memory chip inside the computer.
·      In 1976 about 20 years after the first computer was made another computer is invented, it is called the Apple I.
·      The first cellular phone communication network is started in Japan.
·       In 1981 the first laptop was created and sold to the public.
·      Shortly after laptops began to be sold they made computer mouse’s.
·      The first cellular phone network is created in the United States. And also in
·      Around 1984 the Apple Macintosh is released and so is the IBM PC AT.  
·      In 1994 was when the American government released control of Internet and World Wide Web is born making communication at light speed. 

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