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ca. 3700 v.Chr.
Papyrus, made from reed
and used to write on, is
invented in Egypt.
ca. 3400-1100 v. Chr.
The Minoan civilization in
Crete develops the writing
system now known as
Linear A.
ca. 3200 v. Chr.
The Sumerians invent
cuneiform writing, creating
the oldest known written
records by writing on soft
clay with a stylus.
ca. 3000 v. Chr.
Pictograms, a form of
writing in which each sign
represents a thAg or an
idea, come into use in
Egypt.
ca. 1900-1100 v. Chr.
De Myceense beschaving in Griekenland die verbanden heeeft met het Minoïsche
Kreta, (zie Wikipedia)
ontwikkelt
het Lineaire B schrift om een vroege vorm van het Grieks op te schrijven.
ca. 1700 v. Chr.
Het Noord Semitische alfabet wordt ontwikkeld in Palestina en Syrie;
de Hebreeuwse, Arabische en Fenisische alfabetten zijn hiervan afgeleid.
De Grieken ontwikkelen ca. 100 v. Chr. een alfabet op basis van het Fenisische
alfabet en het Griekse alfabet staat model voor het Etruskische alfabet
(ca. 800 v. Chr.). Hiervan wordt het Romeinse alfabet afgeleid dat de
basis is van alle moderne Weseuropeese alfabetten.
ca. 1200 v. Chr.
The Chinese inscribe the
vroegste nog bestaande vormen van hun geschreven tekens op beenderen van
dieren en op de schaal van turtle
ca. 165 v. Chr.
Perkament wordt in Pergamum (Klein Azie) gebruikt om op te schrijven.
AD 105
Paper made from tree bark
and rags is said to have
been Ovenod in China by
Zai Lun (ca. 50-118)
AD 510
The Chinnese develop block-
book printing, in which a
wooden block is carved with
text, inked and then used to
produce multiple copies.
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Knowledge of paper-making
reaches central Asia from
China, and is passed on to
the Arab world, reaching
Moorish Spain and
Byzantium in the 11 th
century.
ca. 1050
A Chinese alchemist, Pi
Sheng, invents the first
moveable type for use in
printing, creating reusable
type from a hardened
mixture of clay and glue.
ca.1403
Korean printers become the
first to cast movable type in
bronze.
ca.1450
A German goldsmith,
Johannes Gutenberg
(1400-68), invents a mould
for casting movable metal
type and the first printing
press; in 1455 he produces
the Gutenberg Bible,
believed to be the first
European book printed with
movable type.
1837
Charles Wheatstone
(1802-75), an English
physicist, patents an electric
telegraph.
1843
Scottish inventor Alexander
Bain (1791-1872) invents a
facsimile machine.
1844
Samuel Morse (1791-1872)
transmits the first message
along a telegraph line in the
USA using his Morse code
of short (dot) and long (dash) signals.
'1878
A Scots-born US inventor,
Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922), patents the
telephone.
1877
US inventor Thomas Alva '
Edison (1847-1931) invents the carbon transmitter as
improvement to the
telephone, and devises the
phonograph, the first practical machine for recording sound.
1895
Italian scientist Guglielmo
Marconi (1847-1937) start
experimenting with 'wireless
telegraph, the ancestor of t
radio, achieving radio
communication across the '
Channel in 1898, across the
Atlantic in 1901 and with
Australia in 1918.
1897
The cathode ray tube is
invented. The device, in
which a narrow beam of
electrons acts on a
fluorescent screen or
photographic surface, paves
the way for television.
1900
Voice is first broadcast by
radio in the USA.
1925
A Scottish engineer, John
Logie Baird (1888-1946),
demonstrates the first true television picture,
instantaneously viewing and
transmitting an image of a
distant object.
1931
The American company
AT&T develops telex
machines.
1948
The transistor is invented by
US physicists John Bardeen
(1908-91), Walter H Brattain
(1902-87) and William B
Shockley (1910-89). It
revolutionizes radio and
contributes greatly to the
development of other
electronic devices.
1956
Two US engineers,
Raymond Dolby (1933- )
and Charles Ginsburg
(1920-92), demonstrate the
first practical videotape
recorder.
1962
The USA launches Telstar I,
a communications satellite
'- that relays television signals,
enabling transatlantic
satellite communications.
1963
The USA launches the first
geostationary satellite,
Syncom 2; by the 1970s a global satellite network is in
place carrying telegraphy,
telephony and television
transmissions.
1977
The first optical fibre cable is
installed in the USA.
1979
Compact discs are developed
by Sony of Japan and Philips
of the Netherlands.
1984
The first commercial
cellphone (mobile phone)
service begins in the USA.
1985
The Internet begins as a
means of allowing US
universities to share the
resources of five regional
supercomputing centres.
1988
The International Services
Digital Network (ISDN), for
sending signals in digital
format along optical fibres
and coaxial cables, is
launched in Japan.
1989
English computer scientist
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955- ) devises a system
of linking computer
networks, extending the
Internet to create a global
network of computer
networks (the 'World Wide
Web') offering
communication (e-mail),
social interaction (chat
rooms), information
dissemination and
commercial transactions.
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