Communication History

Communication in the form of spoken or written words

Speech is the expression of, or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.

Symbol - Something that represents or stands for something else

Around 30,000 BC murals were painted on cave walls that told stories of battles, hunts, and culture

Around 10,000 BC images were created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading.

9,000 BC saw the development of pictures that represent an object or an idea.

A written character that symbolizes the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it, e.g., numerals and Chinese characters.

a sequence of letters, words, or symbols marked on paper or other surface appeared around 2700 BC

a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order used to represent the basic sounds of a language in particular, the set of letters from A to Z

Johann Gutenburg invented an actual printing press in 1450 Gutenburg was the first to use a press to print the Bible, the oldest full

In 1714 an Englishman, Henry Mill, received the first patent for a typewriter.

1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph. 1832 Samuel Morse invents Morse Code.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston in 1876. One hundred twenty years later there are over 360 million telephone numbers,

1951, The first commercially available, “mass produced” electronic computer entered the market The computer was manufactured in the United S

In 1973 a global computer network emerged, providing a variety of information and communication facilities. These interconnected networks us