FROM STONE AGE TO

TECH AGE

CAVE PAINTINGS – 38,000 BC

Cave paintings (also known as
parietal art) are painted drawings
on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of
prehistoric origin. The exact purpose
of these paintings is not exactly
known.
This Photo by Unknown Author is

HIEROGLYPHICS - 4000 BC
Most of the pictures can stand for
the object they represent, but
usually they stand for sounds.
Hieroglyphics can be pictures of
living creatures, objects used in daily
life or symbols.

ROMAN ALPHABET – 6TH CENTURY BC

The Latin or Roman alphabet is the
writing system originally used by the
ancient Romans to write the Latin
language.

PRINTING PRESS - 1440 and 1450

German goldsmith, Johannes
Gutenberg made the first printing
press in 1440. It was a manual press,
but his great achievement was to
put together a complete process to
prepare and print pages.

TYPEWRITER – 1878
The first typewriter was invented by
Christopher Latham Sholes. It is a
mechanical device to produce printed
characters on a piece of paper by typing
individual keys. They became widely used
for business communication.
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TECH AGE

TELEGRAPH AND MORSE CODE – 1830s

The telegraph revolutionised long-distance
communication. It worked by transmitting
electrical signals over a wire laid between
stations. The Morse code encodes the basic
Latin alphabet as well as standardised
sequences of short and long signals called
‘dots’ and ‘dashes’ or ‘dits’ and ‘dahs’.

THE TELEPHONE – 1870s

The concept of the telephone dates back to
the string telephone or lover’s telephone that
used two diaphragms connected by a taut
string or wire. The essential idea was that a
diaphragm can collect voice sounds from the
air as in the ear and a string or wire can
transmit voice sounds at a distance.

RADIO – 1895
The radio is essentially a wireless
telegraph. The first successful radio
was invented by Guglielmo Marconi
that was based on airborne Hertzian
waves (radio transmission).

TELEVISION – 1950s
The first TV was a black and white
tv signal that was broadcasted to
living rooms everywhere.

COMPUTER AND MICRO-PROCESSORS - 1980s

With the development of fibreoptic cable in the
1960s and the birth of a rather full-figured cell-
phone in the 1980s. They used Dow Corning
silicone and computer chips to build personal
computers.
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TECH AGE

THE INTERNET – 1983

It was first used by the US
government until the 1990s when
internet browsing went commercial
marking the tipping point for email
and in the shower away messages.
Web browsing went from desktops
to mobile devices and tablets with
the advent of 3G AND 4G
technology allowing us to
communicate at light speed from
anywhere on the globe.