1812 - The idea of mechanically calculating mathematical tables first came to Charles Babbage, he later made a small

calculator that could perform certain mathematical computations to eight decimals.

1823 – Charles Babbage obtained government support for the design of a projected machine, the Difference Engine,
with a 20-decimal capacity. Its construction required the development of mechanical engineering techniques

1920 - the Bartlane cable picture transmission system used telegraph signaling of characters punched in paper tape
to send samples of images quantized to 5 levels.

1926 - Paul M. Rainey of Western Electric patented a facsimile machine which transmitted its signal using 5-bit PCM,
encoded by an opto-mechanical analog-to-digital converter.

mid-1830s – Charles Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine, the forerunner of the modern digital
computer.

1843 - Babbage’s friend mathematician Ada Lovelace translated a French paper about the Analytical Engine and, in
her own annotations, published how it could perform a sequence of calculations, the first computer program

1937 - British engineer Alec Reeves, conceived the use of PCM for voice communication while working for
International Telephone and Telegraph in France

1938 – Alec Reeves filed for a French patent

1940 – Claude E. Shannon noticed the similarity between Boolean algebra and the telephone switching circuits, he
applied Boolean algebra to electrical systems at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT)

1941- Claude Shannon took a position at Bell Labs, where he had spent several prior summers. His war-time work on
secret communication systems was used to build the system over which Roosevelt and Churchill communicated during
the war.

1943 – Alec Reeves had started working at the Telecommunications Research Establishment and his US patent was
granted

1942 - A prototype of SIGSALY (also known as the X System, Project X, Ciphony I, and the Green Hornet) was developed
at Bell Telephone Laboratories, under the direction of A. B. Clark, assisted by British mathematician Alan Turing and
demonstrated to the US Army. The Army was impressed and awarded Bell Labs a contract for two systems.

1943 - SIGSALY went into service, it used a highly secure one-time pad (OTP) encryption to ensure security

1946 – SIGSALY machines decommissioned and the communication documentation was destroyed.

1948

- Claude Shannon’s most important paper, ‘A mathematical theory of communication,’ which defined a mathematical
notion by which information could be quantified and demonstrated that information media can be encoded in a series
of 1s and 0s through channels like phone lines or wireless connections.

- Shannon Weaver model of communication was created by Claude Elwood Shannon and Warren Weaver when
Claude E. Shannon wrote his paper.

1970 - Dean Barnlund proposed a transactional model of communication for basic interpersonal communication
which articulates that sending and receiving of messages happens simultaneously