Communication

14 inventions

Movable type revolutionized information distribution. Gutenberg borrowed money from Johann Fust and ...

Cai Lun improved the papermaking process using bark, hemp, rags, and fishnets. Paper existed before ...

Bell filed his patent hours before Elisha Gray filed a similar one. The first words transmitted were...

TCP/IP was the protocol that made the internet possible. ARPANET, the precursor, sent its first mess...

Invented at CERN to help scientists share research. The first website went live on August 6, 1991. B...

Marconi built on the theoretical work of Maxwell and Hertz. He transmitted a signal across the Atlan...

Farnsworth sketched his idea for electronic TV at age 14 while plowing a field. RCA tried to steal h...

Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, redefining mobile computing. IBM Simon was the first smartphone i...

Kahn rigged a digital camera to his phone to share photos of his newborn daughter. The first commerc...

Cuneiform was the first writing system, initially for accounting records. Egyptian hieroglyphics dev...

The Phoenician alphabet had 22 consonant signs, no vowels. The Greeks added vowels around 800 BC. Th...

Kao demonstrated that glass fibers could transmit light signals over long distances. He determined t...

Samuel Morse was a successful portrait painter before he turned to electrical communication. With Al...

Sholes, a Milwaukee printer and newspaperman, patented a practical typewriter in 1868 with Carlos Gl...