Data communication
Classification
Data communication is information in the present transmitted between persons. Oral language, telegraph, telephone, radio, and television are forms of data communication.
Inventions from the ORAL ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Oral Language | spoken words | 250,000 BCE | Africa | |
Flute | music as data | 36,000 BCE | Germany |
Inventions from the WRITTEN ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Seal emblem | for marking documents | 3500 BCE | Sumer, Mesopotamia | |
Stringed musical instruments | music | 3000 BCE | Egypt | |
Checkers | board game | 3000 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
Lyre, harp | music instruments | 2600 BCE | Mesopotamia | |
Standard weights and measures | for commerce | 2500 BCE | Indus River | |
Puppetry | theatre | 2500 BCE | Indus River | |
Ruler, protractor | measuring | 2400 BCE | Indus River | |
Balance scale | measuring | 2000 BCE | Indus River | |
Sundial | timekeeping | 1500 BCE | Babylonia | |
Trumpet | music, signaling | 1500 BCE | King Tut, Egypt | |
Playing cards | game | 1000 BCE | China | |
Kite | signaling | 1000 BCE | China | |
Bagpipe | music instrument | 1000 BCE | Scotland/Rome |
Inventions from the ALPHABET ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Grammar | word usage rules | 700 BCE | India | |
Coin | money | 600 BCE | Phoenicia, Lebanon (54) | |
Pipe organ | water pipe | 250 BCE | Ctesibius | Rome |
News | Acta Diurna | 59 BCE | Julius Caesar | Rome. (61) |
Calendar Julian | later Gregorian calendar | 45 BCE | Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory XIII | Rome (98) |
Postal system | horse or cart methods | 50 AD | Caesar Augustus | Rome (40) |
Chess | board strategy game | 400 AD | India |
Inventions from the NUMBERS ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Paper currency | money | 800 AD | China | |
University | early form | 859 AD | Fez, Morocco | |
University, Europe | degree granting | 1088 AD | Bologna, Italy |
Inventions from the PRINT ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Trombone | brass instrument | 1450 AD | Italy | |
Guitar | stringed instrument | 1450 AD | Spain | |
Bass and cello | stringed instruments | 1530 AD | Gaudenzio Fenali | Serpano, Italy |
Violin | stringed instrument | 1542 AD | Andrea Amati | Cremona, Italy |
Print newspaper | new on paper | 1605 AD | Johann Carolus | Strasbourg, Germany |
Clarinet | reed instrument | 1690 AD | Johann Christoph Denner | Nuremberg, Germany |
Piano | percussion instrument | 1709 AD | Bartalomeo Christofori di Francesco | Italy |
Inventions from the WIRED ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Morse code | instant distant communication | 1837 | Samuel Morse | USA (56) |
Telegraph | practical | 1837 | Samuel Morse | USA (56) |
Fax machine | 1843 | Alexander Bain | UK | |
Printing telegraph | recorded dots/dashes | 1846 | Royal Earl House, Jacob Brett | UK |
Mail order catalog | shop from home | 1872 | Montgomery Ward | USA |
Telephone | auditory instant communication | 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell | USA (15) |
Microphone | amplified/recorded/transmitted speech | 1878 | David E. Hughes, Emile Berliner | UK/USA/ Germany |
Radio | wireless communication | 1895 | Guglielmo Marconi | Italy (29) |
Remote radio control | wireless control | 1898 | Nikola Tesla | USA |
RADAR | radio detection and ranging | 1904 | Christian Haismeyer | Germany |
SONAR | sound navigation and ranging | 1906 | Lewis Nixon | USA |
Rotary dial telephone | self entered phone number | 1919 | Almon Brown Strowger | USA |
Amplitude modulation radio | AM standard receiver | 1919 | Edwin Howard Armstrong | USA |
Inventions from the WIRELESS ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Commercial radio | KDKA Pittsburgh | 1920 | Pittsburgh, PA | USA (6) |
Loudspeaker | amplified speech | 1924 | Chester W. Rice, Edward W. Kellogg | USA |
Yagi-Uda antenna | radio transmission | 1926 | Hidetsugu Yagi, Shintaro Uda | Japan |
Car radio | radio on the move | 1926 | William P. Lear | USA |
Enigma machine | code writing machine | 1926 | Arthur Scherbius | Germany |
Television | first transmission | 1927 | Philo T. Farmsworth | USA (29) |
Sound synchronized animation | talking cartoons | 1928 | Walt Disney | USA |
Color television | 1928 | John Logie Baird | UK | |
Electric guitar | 1931 | Adoph Rickenbacker | USA | |
Frequency modulation radio | FM radio | 1933 | Edwin H. Armstrong | USA |
RADAR | functional | 1935 | Robert Watson-Watt | UK |
Richter scale | earthquake detection and rating | 1935 | Charles Francis Richter, Beno Gutenberg | USA |
Bass guitar | electric | 1935 | Paul Tumarc | USA |
Walkie talkie | 2 way radio | 1938 | Alfred J. Gross | USA |
Citizens band radio | CB radio | 1945 | Alfred J. Gross | USA |
Credit card | Diner's Club | 1946 | Frank McNamara, Ralph Schneider | USA (54) |
Weather radar | forecasting | 1948 | David Atlas | USA |
Cable television | wired TV signal | 1948 | John Watson | USA |
Pager | radio notification | 1949 | Alfred J. Gross | USA |
Semiconductor pocket radio | solid state electronics | 1952 | Norman Krim | USA |
Voice recognition | over telephone | 1952 | Bell labs | USA |
Color television broadcasting | 1953 | RCA labs | USA | |
RADAR speed gun/camera | speed measure | 1954 | Maurits Gatsonides | Netherlands |
MASER | microwave amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation | 1955 Charles Hard Townes, Arthur Schawlow | USA | |
Noise canceling headphones | aviator | 1955 | Lawrence Jerome Fogel | USA |
Television remote control | wireless | 1955 | Eugene Polley | USA |
Digital clock | 1956 | D.E .Protzman | USA | |
HiFi | high fidelity sound | 1958 | Dieter Rams, Hans Gugelot | Germany |
CAD (DAC-1) | computer aided design | 1959 | IBM | USA |
Space War | first video game | 1962 | Steve "Slug" Russell, MIT | USA |
Touch tone pad | keyed numerical phone dialing | 1962 | John Elias Karlin | USA |
Sketch pad (CAD) | computer aided design | 1963 | Ivan Sutherland | USA |
Moog synthesizer | 1964 | Robert Moog | USA | |
Flat screen television | 1964 | Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, Robert Wilson | USA | |
Touchscreen | replaces/augments keyboard | 1965 | Eric A Johnson, Samuel C. Hurst | UK/USA (85) |
PIN | personal identification number for ATM | 1966 | James Goodfellow | UK |
Virtual reality headset | VR | 1968 | Ivan Sutherland | USA |
Boombox | portable stereo | 1968 | Phillips | Netherlands |
Video game console | 1968 | Ralph H. Baer | USA | |
LASER printer | 1969 | Gary Starkweather | USA | |
Early cellular phone technology | 1970 | Amos Joel, Bell labs | USA | |
Pocket calculator | 1970 | Busicom Co. | Japan | |
1971 | Ray Tomlinson | USA (68) | ||
Computerized telephone exchange | 1971 | Erna Schneider Hoover, Bell labs | USA | |
3-D computer animation | 1972 | Edmund Catmull | USA | |
Pong video game | 1972 | Al Alcorn, Nolan Bushnell | USA | |
CGI, computer generated imagery | 1973 | Edwin Catmul, Fred Parke | USA | |
Practical cell phone | mobile, wireless telephone | 1973 | Donald Cox, W. Rae Young, Eric Tigerstedt | USA (23) |
Thermal inkjet printer | 1977 | Ichiro Endo, Canon | Japan | |
Sony Walkman | portable music | 1979 | Nobutoshi Kihara, Akio Morita | Japan |
Cordless phone | home use without wires | 1980 | George Sweigert, Teri Pall | USA |
Online stock trading | 1982 | Bill Porter | USA | |
Dragon speech recognition | words to print | 1982 | James Baker, Janet Baker | USA |
Nintendo entertainment system | 1983 | Nintendo | Japan | |
Caller identification | caller ID | 1988 | Shirley Ann Jackson, Kazuo Hashimoto | USA/Japan |
Inventions from the INTERNET ERA Era
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Practical virtual reality | VR | 1989 | Jaron Lanier | USA |
Nintendo Gameboy | handheld gaming system | 1989 | Nintendo | Japan |
Wind up radio | free of external electricity | 1991 | Trevor Baylis | UK |
Web cam | video on/from a personal computer | 1991 | Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Paul Jardetzky | UK |
Digital cell phone, digital special mobile | DSM replaces analog phone | 1991 | international standard | international |
Smart phone | allows applications and internet, IBM Simon | 1992 | Martin Cooper, Motorola | USA |
Playstation | video gaming system | 1994 | SONY | Japan |
Amazon on line shopping | internet shopping remotely | 1994 | Jeff Bezos | USA (80) |
Smart phone applications | increases smart phone versatility | 1994 | Hal Abelson | USA |
On line radio | Broadcast.com, streaming | 1995 | Christopher Jaeb, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban | USA |
E bay | personal on line selling | 1995 | Pieree Morad Omidyar | USA |
Video baby monitor | sight and sound wireless | 1997 | Cynthia Altenhofen | USA |
High definition television | HDTV | 1998 | international | international |
Bluetooth | wireless control | 1999 | Jaap Haartsen | Sweden |
Noise canceling headphones, Bose | home use for music | 2000 | Amar Bose | USA |
Satellite radio | same radio anywhere, no commercials | 2001 | Martine Rothblatt, David Margolese, Robert Briskman | USA |
X-box | gaming system Microsoft | 2001 | Bill Gates et al. | USA |
Skype | video phone | 2003 | Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn | Estonia |
X-box live | competitive gaming on the internet | 2003 | Bill Gates et al. | USA |
Podcast | video education on the internet | 2003 | Christopher Lyden, Dave Winer | USA |
World of Warcraft, MMORG | massive multiplayer online role playing game | 2004 | Blizzard Entertainment | USA |
internet social network | 2004 | Mark Zuckerberg | USA (73) | |
mini blogging platform | 2006 | USA | USA | |
Hulu | video streaming on demand | 2007 | USA | USA |
Iphone | redefined smartphone | 2007 | Steve Jobs et al. | USA |
Square payment system | personal, portable credit card billing | 2009 | Jack Dorsey | USA |
Bitcoin | cryptocurrency | 2009 | Satoshi Nakamoto? | 2009 |
Siri | audio assistant | 2010 | Adam Cheyer, Dag Kittlaus, Tom Gruber | USA |
3 dimensional television | 3D TV | 2010 | Japan | Japan |
Apple Pay | phone to pay credit | 2014 | Greg Kerr | USA |
Amazon Firestick | smart TV streaming | 2014 | Hon Hai, Precision Industry | USA |
Apple Watch | smart watch with internet | 2015 | Jony Ive, Marc Newson | USA |
Skype translator, real time translation | over 50 languages with video | 2015 | Skype | USA |
Amazon Echo, Alexa | audio assistent smart home | 2015 | Rohit Prasad, Tony Reid | USA |
Oculus rift, VR | virtual reality | 2016 | Palmer Lucky | USA |
OshenWatch | pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation watch, bioparameters | 2020 | California | USA |