TIMELINE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

1830 Joseph Henry transmitted the first practical electrical

signal.
1837 Samuel Finley Breese Morse invented the telegraph
(patented on 1844).
1843 Alexander Bain invented the facsimile.
1861 Johann Phillip Reis completed the first nonworking
telephone.
1864 James Clerk Maxwell released his paper “Dynamical Theory
of the Electromagnetic Field” which concluded that light,
electricity and magnetism were related.
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1865 Dr. Mahlon Loomis became the first person to

communicate wirelessly through Earth’s atmosphere.
1866 First transatlantic telegraph cable was installed.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson invented the
telephone.
1877 Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph.
1880 Heinrich Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves.
1887 Heinrich Hertz discovered radio waves.
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated wireless radio
wave propagation.