SYSTEMS Around A.D. - Year Event Remarks The reporting of the delivery of a child by queen using drum beats from a distant place to King Akbar. Invention of telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse and Sir Charles Wheatstone Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell and Antonio Meucci Jagadis Chandra Bose and Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated wireless telegraphy.
Television broadcast(John Logi Baird) First radio FAX transmitted across continent.(Alexander Bain) ARPANET- the first internet came into existence(J.C.R. Licklider) Fiber optics developed at Bell Laboratories Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web . It is believed that minister Birbal experimented with the arrangement to decide the number of drummers posted between the place where the queen stayed and the place where the king stayed. It resulted in tremendous growth of messages through post offices and reduced physical travel of messengers considerably.
Perhaps the most widely used means of communication in the history of mankind. It meant a giant leap – from an era of communication using wires to communicating without using wires. (wireless) First television broadcast by BBC The idea of FAX transmission was patented by Alexander Bain in . ARPANET was a project undertaken by the U.S.
defence department. It allowed file transfer from one computer to another connected to the network. Fiber optical systems are superior and more economical compared to traditional communication systems. WWW may be regarded as the mammoth encyclopedia of knowledge accessible to everyone round the clock throughout the year.
T ABLE . S OME MAJOR MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION