Wired— Data communication
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Data communication
| 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 |