History TimelineCommunication and
Technology
Created by; Dayla SmithTeacher: Whitfield!
Homing Pigeons carry messages about the Olympics for Ancient Greeks.
776 B.C.
900 B.C.
Chinese develops
postal deliver written
messages
3500 B.C.
Sumerians record pictographs
representing words on clay tables
China Invented printing by inking carving wood
blocks.
450
Byzantine ship captain used colored flags to send signals to one another across the water.
900
1450
Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using moveable metal type.
1837
SAMUEL MORSE INVENTS A TELEGRAPH THAT CAN SEND
SHORT AND LONG BEEPS CALLED “DOTS” AND
DASHES”
1866FIRST SUCCESSFUL
TRANSMISSION OVER
A TRANSATLANTIC
CABLE.
1876Alexander Graham Bell,
invents the telephone
1877Thomas Edison invents the phonograph a device to record sound on a wax cylinder
1901
Gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean