Engineering & Technology > Communications
Communication by written word reached an historic milestone in 1454 with the invention by Johann Gutenburg of the Gutenburg moveable type press. Modern communication technology dates to the invention of the telegraph in 1831, Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless telegraph in 1894, Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876, satellite phones and cell phones from the late 1980s and the first television sets in 1936.
