Timeline of Communication Technology

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Year Technology/event Inventor Details
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]
1837 Telegraph (Electric Relay) Joseph Henry, Edward davy [1]

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