Milestones in Communication

Milestones in Communications The capabilities of modern communications would utterly astound our ancestors. Did you ever stop to think that it took five months for Queen Isabella to hear of Columbus' discovery, or that it took two weeks for Europe to learn of Lincoln's assassination? We take for granted immediate news of everything that is going on in the world, but it was not always so. Modern technology and future predictions are easier to comprehend …

…America are united by telegraphy." - Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan, as she sent the first transatlantic telegram Summer, 1876: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." - Alexander Graham Bell’s first words on the telephone December 12, 1901: "S S S S ..." - Guglielmo Marconi, sending the letter S, in the first wireless signal across the Atlantic July 20, 1969: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong, landing on the moon