Timeline

A brief history of the events important to communication from 3400 B.C.E. to 1997 C.E. *A note on the B.C.E. and C.E. B.C.E. means Before Common Era, and C.E. means Common Era -- we use these instead of B.C. and A.D. which are exclusively Christian*

3400 B.C.E. to 124 B.C.E.
1 C.E. to 1455 C.E.
1595 C.E. to 1997 C.E.

Shakespeare 3kb
Newspaper 5kb
Alexander Graham Bell 7kb

Writing in Hieroglyphs
Ancient Egyptian
Confucius
Jean Champollion
Language
Cassiodorus
Papyrus
French
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Communication
Louis Braille

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World History Chart
A timeline like ours, except it includes all events in history.

1595 C.E. to 1997 C.E.

Date	Location	Event
1595	England	Romeo & Juliet is written by William Shakespeare (considered by many to be the greatest English playwright of all time). His plays greatly influence our culture & language.
1700s	Europe/North America	... Newspapers begin to be circulated.
1700s- 1800s	Europe	Semaphore (a system of flag symbols) is used widely as a communications device. In France semaphore towers are set up within view of each other. It takes only 7 minutes to send a message from Paris to Brest. This system is later used in North America.
Early 1800s		Development of Sign Language. It's controversial because many feel the hearing-impaired should learn to read lips). It doesn't become widely accepted until the 20th century.
1839	France	Louis Daguerre shows his "daguerreotypes" in the city of Paris. They are the first permanent photographs.
May 24, 1844	England	First public telegraph transmission by Samuel Morse (also the inventor of Morse Code).
Mar. 10, 1876	Canada	Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone message "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you."
Nov. 20th, 1877	USA	The phonograph is invented by Thomas Edison. The first ever recorded/reproduced sound is "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
1884	USA	First primitive television is invented.
1885	USA	George Eastman markets the first box camera, the Kodak camera, for $25. Although photography is now 50 years old, this is the first camera simple enough for beginners to use.
1896	Italy	First long- distance radio transmissin by radio inventor Guglelmo Marconi. He applies for a British patent.
1901		First transatlantic radio transmission
1920s	USA	Television boadcasting experiments.
1945	North America	The general public of North America begins watching Television. It had been available before the war, in the 30s, and also two years earlier in England.
1946	USA	ENIAC computer becomes world's first electronicc digital computer. It occupies the space of a garage. A modern handheld computer is far more powerful.
1980s	North America	Personal Computers become powerful, affordable, and practical.
1980s- present		The Internet, originally designed in the 1970s as a communications system for the military, enters public use. It grows considerably in the next 15 years, and millions of homes and businesses worldwide are conected.

Sources
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Glossary
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