History of

Electronic Communication
by Erol Seke
For the course "Digital Communications
OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY
1799 nvention of the electric battery (A. Volta)
1837 Telegraph is demonstrated (S. Morse)
1858 Transatlantic cable laid and failed (second one in 1866)
The condition of cable of 1866 in 1939
Cable laid in Bering Strait in 1866
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1858 cable
1864 Maxwell's electromagnetic equations (J.C. Maxwell)
1875 Design of a fixed length binary code for telegraph (E. Baudot)
1876 Telephone is patented (A.G. Bell)
1877 Maxwell equations verified (H.R. Hertz)

1888 Liquid crystal is invented (F. Reintzer)

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1895 Radio transmission is demonstrated (G. Marconi)
1897 Electromechanical switch (Strowger)
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1906 nvention of the triod amplifier (L. DeForest)
1915 Newyork-San Fransisco telephone transmission
1920 AM radio broadcast
1929 TV demonstrated (V.K. Zworykin)
1933 Demonstration of FM transmission (E. Armstrong)
1906 Voice over radio (Fessenden, L. DeForest)
1926 First public radiotelephone test over Atlantic (Bell)
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Armstrong
Zworykin
1946 ENAC - First digital computer
using vacuum tubes (J.P. Eckert,
J.W. Mauchly)
1936 Commercial TV broadcast (BBC)
1937 First digital computer using relays (G. Stibitz - Bell)
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1939: Stibitz' first full-scale
electromagnetic relay calculator
performed the complex number
operations and was named the
Complex Number Calculator
1940: Complex Number Calculator
was used remotely over telephone
lines, setting the stage for the linking
of computers and communication
systems, time-sharing, and
eventually networking
ENAC
1947 nvention of the transistor (W. Brattain, J. Bardeen, W. Shockley)
1948 Theory of nformation (C.E. Shannon)
nformation
source
nformation
user
Noise
information channel
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Shannon Shannon
1956 Transatlantic telephone cable (designed by Bell Labs)
1954 Solar cell (Bell Labs)
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1958 ntegrated circuit (J. Kilby, R. Noyce)
1958 Laser (Townes, Schawlow)
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This is a modern one developed in a university lab
Kilby
Townes, Schawlow
1st C
Ruby Laser
1960 Digital switch (Bell Labs)
1962 Telstar 1 satellite was launched
1960 RS-232 was introduced (EA)
1960 COBOL was created
1961 FORTRAN V was created
1961 300 bit/second modem is introduced (Bell)
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Telstar 1
Digital switch (Bell Labs)
1963 EEE is founded
1963 ASC codes are developed
1963 Mouse is invented (D. Engelbart)
1964 Portable calculator with all transistors
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1964 BASC is invented (J. Kemeny, T. Kurtz)
1965 TTL is defined and developed (Texas nst.)
1967 First floppy disk (A. Shugart - BM)
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5.25 8 3,5
1967 LOGO is developed
1967 GPS is made commercialy available
1969 First supercomputer CDC 7600 (S. Cray)
1969 Unix is developed (Bell Labs)
1969 Laser printer is invented (G. Starkweather - Xerox)
1969 ARPANET is started (DoD)
1967 Portable calculator with C (J. Kilby)
1969 CCD is created (Bell Labs)
First CCD camera (Kodak 1975)
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CCD
Kodak
calculator
CDC 7600
1970 256 bit static RAM (Fairchild), 1024 bit dynamic RAM (ntel)
1970 First CPU 4004 (ntel)
1970 forth is developed (C.H. Moore)
1970 ADA is developed (DoD)
1970 Dot matrix printer is invented (Centronics)
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4004
4004
1971 FTP is first used
1971 Pascal is created (Niklaus Wirth)
1972 C is created (D. Ritchie - Bell Labs)
1970 First modern LCD is demonstrated (J. Fergason)
1972 CD is invented
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Liquid C
1976 First computer with color graphics is introduced (Apple)
1978 OS standard is developed (SO)
1980 Fortran 77 is created
1981 DOS 1.0 is released
1984 First paper about computer viruses (F. Cohen)
1974 SEQUEL (SQL) is created (BM)
1976 5.25' floppy is introduced
1984 First computer with AT bus is created (BM)
1982 WordPerfect 1.0 is released
1983 Windows is announced (MS)
1983 C++ is developed (Bell Labs)
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1988 Fiber optic cable through Atlantic (AT&T)
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1988 cable
1988 cable
Submersed fiber amplifier (1988)
Cables of 1990s
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1989 486DX processor is introduced (ntel)
1990 First dial-up SS, "The World is online
1991 Linux is introduced (L. Torvald)
1991 WWW is launched (T. Berners-Lee - CERN)
1993 Mosaic is released (M. Andreessen)
1996 Deep Blue (BM) beats G. Kasparov
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Torvald
Andreessen Deep Blue
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Frequency Spectrum
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