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History of Communication System

The document provides a history of electronic communications from 200 BC to 1995 AD. It describes several important innovations over this period including the development of the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, computers, fiber optics, cellular networks and GPS. Key inventors and their inventions are mentioned, such as Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone in 1876, Guglielmo Marconi demonstrating wireless radio communication in 1887, and the first commercial cellular network launching in 1983. The document traces the evolution of communication technologies over two millennia.

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History of Communication System

The document provides a history of electronic communications from 200 BC to 1995 AD. It describes several important innovations over this period including the development of the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, computers, fiber optics, cellular networks and GPS. Key inventors and their inventions are mentioned, such as Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone in 1876, Guglielmo Marconi demonstrating wireless radio communication in 1887, and the first commercial cellular network launching in 1983. The document traces the evolution of communication technologies over two millennia.

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05/08/2022

1 Principles of Communications
ECE 011

2 History of Electronic Communications

Barrier to communication: LANGUAGE AND DISTANCE


Communication is the basic process of exchanging information

Information: VOICE AUDIO SIGNAL; TEXT; SOUNDS/MUSIC, pictures,video, data….

3 200 to 100 BC

4 1793 – Semaphores
Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line.

5 1824 - Sturgeon; Electromagnets

6 Samuel Morse

7 1843 - Invention of facsimile. Alexander Bain

8 1866 -United States and England-


The first transatlantic telegraph cable laid.

9 1876 Alexander Bell


Invention of the telephone.
• "Mr Watson! Come here! I want to see you!"
10 1877 Thomas Edison
Invention of the phonograph
• The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
11 1879 George Eastman
Invention of photography.
• George Eastman invented the Kodak camera, helping make photography accessible to the public.
12 1887 Guglielmo Marconi
Demonstration of “wireless”communications by radio waves.
1901 First transatlantic radio contact made.

13 1903 John Fleming


Invention of the two-electrode vacuum tube rectifier.

14 1906 Reginald Fessenden


Invention of amplitude modulation;first electronic voice communication demonstrated.

15 1906 Lee de Forest


Invention of the triode vacuum tube.
• A triode (audion) is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or valve in British English) consisting of
three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a

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three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a
plate (anode).
16 1914 Hiram P. Maxim
Founding of American Radio Relay League,
the first amateur radio organization.

17 1920 KDKA Pittsburgh


First AM radio broadcast.

18 1923 Vladimir Zworykin


Invention and demonstration of television.

19 1933–1939
Edwin Armstrong
Invention of the superheterodyne receiver and frequency modulation.

20 1939 United States


First use of two-way radio (walkie-talkies).

21 1940–1945 Britain, United States


Invention and perfection of radar
(World War II).

22 1948 John von Neumann


Creation of the first stored program and others electronic digital computer.

23 1948 Bell Laboratories


Invention of transistor.

24 1953 RCA/NBC
First color TV broadcast.

25 1958–1959
Jack Kilby (Texas Instruments) And Robert Noyce (Fairchild)
Invention of integrated circuits.

26 1958–1962 United States


First communication satellite tested.
• The world's first communications satellite was Project SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting
Relay Equipment)
• It captured world attention by broadcasting a Christmas message via short wave radio from U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower through an on-board tape recorder.
27 1961 United States
Citizens band radio first used.
• CB Radio does not require any licensing, and Ham Radio requires a license for the time you are
going to use the radio.
• CB Radio has such modulation as AM and SSB. What about Ham Radio? It has more modulations,
namely AM, SSB, FM, and RTTY.

28 1973–1976 Metcalfe Ethernet and first LANs.


1975 First personal computers.

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29 1977 United States


First use of fiber-optic cable.

30 1983 Cellular telephone networks.

31 1995 United States Global Positioning System deployed.


• The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a constellation of about 24 artificial satellites. The GPS
satellites are uniformly distributed in a total of six orbits such that there are four satellites per
orbit.

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