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TimeLine. Kirsten Smith Whitfield –Social Studies 2 nd Period. 3500 BC. Sumerians recored pictographs representing words on clay tablets. 45,000 BC. Neaderthnal man varves a picture on a woolly mammoth tooth. 450. Chinese invent printing by inking carved wood blocks. 1450.
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TimeLine Kirsten Smith Whitfield –Social Studies 2nd Period
3500 BC • Sumerians recored pictographs representing words on clay tablets.
45,000 BC • Neaderthnal man varves a picture on a woolly mammoth tooth
450 • Chinese invent printing by inking carved wood blocks
1450 • Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using moveable metal type.
1792 • Mechanical semaphore is invented in france
1877 • Thomas Edison invents the phonograph a device to recored sound on a wax cylinder.
1924 • Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines
1963 • First communications satellite is launched allowing world wide live broadcast of the 1964 olympics
1972 • The first email messages are sent
1975 • The personal computer, both small and wonderful is invented.
1990 • Tim berners-lee invents the world wide web