Communications Through The Ages

Cave Paintings Egyptian hieroglyphics Phoenician symbols Printing Press

35,400 Years Old- could be the oldest found in
Indonesia. They used natural pigments of red
and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide
and charcoal. Images included animals and sil-
houettes of hands (See above)
This was the main use of communication used in
Egypt during the 28th Century BC. The formal
use of hieroglyphics were Cursive hieroglyphics
and were mainly used in religious scripture
found on papyrus and wood.
Phonetic symbols referring to spoken sounds
either started in around 19th century B.C with
an early Canaanite population or in the 15th
century B.C. in connection with a community
The printing press was first un-
that lived in Egypt. It then spread to Mediterra-
veiled by Johannes Gutenberg in
nean city-states; including Greece . And by the
1440.
8th century BC, the Greeks had adapted it into
the Greek Oral Language.

Mobile Phone + Type Writer Radio Morse Code

Computer
Social Media

The first mobile phone Was the ENIAC was

was used on the 3rd of
April 1973. The inventor
was Martin Cooper a
senior engineer at
Motorola. The
phone weighed 1.1 kg
and the prototype got
you 30 mins of talk time
after 10 hours of charge.
The first social media site
is considered to be Six
Degrees and was created
in 1997 . It allowed peo-
ple to create a profile
and make friends with
others
invented by J. Presper
Eckert and John Mau-
chly at the Uni of Penn-
sylvania. It was started
in 1943 and completed
until 1946. (Electronic
Numerical Integrator
And Calculator) Guglielmo Marconi first conducted radio wave ex-
periments in his attic. Then late one night in Decem- It is named after the inventor Samuel
The first type writer was invented in ber 1894 he demonstrated a fully working radio F. B. Morse. Around 1837, Morse
1867 by C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Glid- developed the American version of
transmitter and receiver to his mother that was set
den and Samuel W. Soule in Milwau- Telegraphy. It was first used is 1844.
kee. In Wisconsin, USA. up to make a bell ring in another room after a push
of the button. His father helped finance work after
this success.