The Telecommunication Timeline

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The paper shows how the history of communication (telephones, telecommunications and other innovations) follows along a pattern that parallels the generalized development of technology leading up to and through the origins of the Industrial Revolution in America. The paper reviews the highlights of inventors and presents a timeline identifying the developments that comprise telecommunication history. The paper discusses Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, Jean Baudot, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisa Gray and others. The paper also discusses relevant communication legislation until today.

From the Paper:

"In Chapter 3 of the text (p. 98) the authors report that Samuel Morse (in 1837) expanded on the idea that had been experimented with earlier - electrical impulses that travel on wires and have the ability to move magnetized needles at the other end - by developing a "key." The key opened and closed an electrical circuit. Morse applied for a patent for his invention in 1940."
"In 1844, according to Webb & Associates (WA), a respected telecommunication consultancy in Massachusets, Morse's electric telegraph was first tested in public. "What Hath God Wrought?" he telegraphed. The telegraph linked Baltimore, MD, with Washington, D.C. Seventeen years later, in 1861, WA reports, coast-to-coast telegraph communication began operation in the U.S."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Consumer Affairs (2004). The AT&T Breakup: 20 Years of Confusion. Retrieved February 26, 2006, from http://consumeraffairs.com/news04/att20.html.
• Federal Communications Commission (2005). Communications History: The Ideas that MadeRadio Possible. Retrieved 25 February, 2006 from http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/radio/ideas.html.
• Federal Communications Commission (2005). Telecommunication Act of 1996. Retrieved 28February 2006 from http://www.fcc.gov/telecom.html.
• Mueller, Milton. (1997). Universal Service and the New Telecommunication Act: MythologyMade Law. Syracuse University. SCILS. Communications ACM, 40(3), 39-47.
• United States Department of Agriculture (2005). USCA Rural Development Electrical Programs. Retrieved 26 February, 2006 from http://www.usda.gov/rus/electric.

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