With the development of civilization and written languages came the need

for more frequent and reliable methods of communication allowing messages to

reach longer distances. This was essential to the control of trade and other

affairs between nations and empires.

Early man used cave walls as the media on which messages could be

transcribed, this was common for many years, until the Egyptians discovered a

special kind of rush (Papyrus) that could be woven to form a portable writing

material. In about 105AD the Chinese discovered a way to make a similar

Over the next few centuries printing techniques advanced rapidly,

especially through the use of steam power. The first typesetting machine, the

Linotype, was patented in 1884 by the German-American Ottmar Mergenthaler.

In the meantime, postal services and moved from being privately to

nationally owned, and long distance postal services became an affordable option.

For the first time, an ordinary person could correspond with people in other

countries. A visual semaphore system was also implemented in both Europe and the

United States, providing a way of 'echoing

the Atlantic Ocean, opening up new possibilities for communication systems.

under rapid improvement. Fibre optic phone lines are being installed throughout

Following the discovery and partial understanding of electricity in the

including many American and British newspapers. Ultimately he has so much

telecommunications moved into a new era, in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented

the Italian inventor Marchese Guglielmo Marconi sent a wireless signal across

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