History of Telecommunication

We explore the prevailing technologies that developed from late 1800's to the present: an always-on, connected world.

DatesEraInventionsHistorical ContextImage1880's - 1910Telegraphs & TelephonesThe world's first co...

Moore's Law is the observation, first made by Gordon Moore in 1965, that the number of transist...

Within this larger timeline of innovations and events, there are 3 main stories of development....

1816 - Copper wires were first used underground to relay a telegraph; copper is good electric c...

This timeline of events is prefaced by the 1896 invention of the Radio. It used electromagnetic...

1966 - Packet Switching is the concept of breaking data into smaller parts that are then sent i...

Conclusion: The drastic increase in square footage between the switch from Data Centers to Hy...

We compared the amount of power that each facility outputs in a day against the amount a typica...

We plotted speed and access against each other as a means of showing the inverse relationship b...

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