Timeline Infographic - Business Telecommunication History

Business Telecommunications: A Hístory From smoke signals to the Powered by FaxCompare cloud: a look back at how we share information Tweet Me! Prehistoric Smoke signals, beacons, drums, and sempahore systems are used in most of the world to communicate over long distances. 1792: French engineer Claude Chappe invents the first optical telegraph. It could produce over 8,000 coded phrases & words. 1809: German inventor Samuel Thomas von Sommering creates the electrochemical telegraph. 會 们 會 February 10, May 24,1844: 1862: Samuel Morse sends first Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli's electrical telegraph Pantelegraph sends the message what hath god wrought first fax. (1sT March 7, 1881: 1876: Alexander Graham Shelford Bidwell invents the first fax Bell patents the telephone. machine able to scan. 1888: Elisha Grey invents the telautograph, allowing for long distance signatures. December 23, 1900: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first audio radio transmission. 1935: Western Union begins offering a intercity fax service. 1950s: Mickey Mouse was featured in1st Precursor to the cloud: mainframe computers are accessed remotely by corporations & academia. coast-to-coast fax message 1960s: Lockheed develops the first digital fax machines. 1964: Xerox releases the first commercial fax machine, sending faxes through phone lines. August 6, 1991: The World Wide Web goes public. December 3, 1992: 1996: First SMS text message sent Online faxing products first from a PC. appear on the market. 2000: August 21, 1996: The ESIGN Act makes electronic signatures legally binding. July9, 2005: HIPAA is enacted, making faxing the secure option for sending and receiving health documents. The Junk Fax Prevention Act is signed, making it illegal to send unsolicited ads to fax machines. November9, 2010: eFax releases the hello fax first faxing app for Google the iPhone. Google Drive announces its partnering with HelloFax, an online fax and document signing service. April 24, 2012: www.FaxCompare.com Follow Us: in FaxCompare Business Telecommunications: A Hístory From smoke signals to the Powered by FaxCompare cloud: a look back at how we share information Tweet Me! Prehistoric Smoke signals, beacons, drums, and sempahore systems are used in most of the world to communicate over long distances. 1792: French engineer Claude Chappe invents the first optical telegraph. It could produce over 8,000 coded phrases & words. 1809: German inventor Samuel Thomas von Sommering creates the electrochemical telegraph. 會 们 會 February 10, May 24,1844: 1862: Samuel Morse sends first Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli's electrical telegraph Pantelegraph sends the message what hath god wrought first fax. (1sT March 7, 1881: 1876: Alexander Graham Shelford Bidwell invents the first fax Bell patents the telephone. machine able to scan. 1888: Elisha Grey invents the telautograph, allowing for long distance signatures. December 23, 1900: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first audio radio transmission. 1935: Western Union begins offering a intercity fax service. 1950s: Mickey Mouse was featured in1st Precursor to the cloud: mainframe computers are accessed remotely by corporations & academia. coast-to-coast fax message 1960s: Lockheed develops the first digital fax machines. 1964: Xerox releases the first commercial fax machine, sending faxes through phone lines. August 6, 1991: The World Wide Web goes public. December 3, 1992: 1996: First SMS text message sent Online faxing products first from a PC. appear on the market. 2000: August 21, 1996: The ESIGN Act makes electronic signatures legally binding. July9, 2005: HIPAA is enacted, making faxing the secure option for sending and receiving health documents. The Junk Fax Prevention Act is signed, making it illegal to send unsolicited ads to fax machines. November9, 2010: eFax releases the hello fax first faxing app for Google the iPhone. Google Drive announces its partnering with HelloFax, an online fax and document signing service. April 24, 2012: www.FaxCompare.com Follow Us: in FaxCompare