Telecommunications Timeline

Telecommunications Timeline Evolution

Riley Dodgens

Ntc/362

July 4, 2012

Tarik Iles

Telecommunications Timeline Evolution

Date Event Significance

1844 The invention of Morse code. Morse demonstrates the electronic telegraph. First words were What Hath God Wrought. Morse revolutionized long distance communications.

1870 Thomas Edison invents multiplex telegraphy. allowed two separate messages to travel in opposite directions simultaneously

1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. Elisha Gray files a patent on Graham Bells invention, Graham finally wins exclusive patent in 1887 after 600 suits were filed.

1907 1907 - Theodore Vail is becomes President of AT&T. Vail wrote in that year's AT&T Annual Report that government regulation, "provided it is independent, intelligent, considerate, thorough, and just," was an appropriate and acceptable substitute for the competitive marketplace. Responsible for end to end service.

1930 AT&T introduces high quality copper wire. Used in insulated phone lines

1934 FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is established. In 1934 Congress passed the Communications Act, which transferred jurisdiction over radio licensing to a new Federal Communications Commission, which also included the telecommunications jurisdiction previously handled by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

1939 John Astenoff and Clifford Berry invent the first computer at Iowa State University First electronic digital computing device. Also pioneered binary arithmetic and electronic switching elements

1952 The first database was implemented on RCA's Bizmac computer. Reynold Johnson, an IBM engineer, developed a massive hard disk consisting of fifty platters, each two feet wide, that rotated on a spindle at 1200 rpm referred to as a jukeboxes.

1954 Gene Amdahl developed the first computer operating system for the IBM 704. Addtionally, Sony introduces the first transistor radio.

The first mass-produced computer with core memory and floating-point arithmetic. The first transistor radios amplifier elements meant that the device was much smaller, required far less power to operate than a tube radio, and was more shock-resistant.

1962 AT&T introduces T-1 multiplex service in the town of Skokie, IL. Two additional events were that telephone cables began to use plastic insulation. Paul Baron of RAND introduces the idea of distributed packet-switching networks.

1974 Many events for