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Revision as of 18:11, 30 December 2017
This is a timeline of communications technology
Contents
Big picture
Time period | Development summary | More details |
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Full timeline
Year | Technology/event | Inventor | Details | |
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1767 | Semaphore invented | Richard Edgeworth | [1] | |
1774 | Early telegraph invented | Georges-Louis Le Sage | One wire each for 26 letters, ran between two rooms in same house [1] | |
1791 | Semaphore (French, proof of concept) | Claude Chappe | Brûlon to Parcé [1] | |
1794 | Semaphore (French, operation) | Paris to Lille [1] | ||
1794 | Semaphore (Sweden, operation) | [1] | ||
1795 | Semaphore (UK, operation) | Lord George Murray | [1] | |
1775 | USPS founded | Benjamin Franklin | [1] | |
1816 | Telegraph (Proof of Concept) | Francis Ronalds | [1] | |
Meta information on the timeline
How the timeline was built
What the timeline is still missing
Timeline update strategy
See also
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 http://www.definitions.net/definition/semaphore. Retrieved December 30, 2017. Missing or empty
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