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= = = __**The Communication Industry!**__ = Communication has come such a long way. From writing letters that took a few months to deliver, the to telegrams and the Pony Express, finally evolving into cell phones and texting. Communicating is big part of everyone's life today. Due to different communication devices, we are able to socialize and connect with each other. Texting is a quick and easy way to figure out plans. Calling lets us talk to family and friends that may be hundreds of miles away.
 * __Introduction__ **

__The Birth of Communication Industry__
__**When?**__ When did the communication industry become established? It was mostly born when people started to communicate with each other by ways other than talking face to face. One of the first ways of communicating was writing letters. These took several weeks to deliver. Now we can send messages instantly with cell phones and computers. <--Modern day cell phone (Smart Phone)

<-- Antique hand-written letter

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Where was the communication industry established? Well, we don't have an exact location. In ancient Egypt, people used hieroglyphics on papyrus scrolls to communicate. Even though that was early in prehistory, it may not have been the first.
 * __Where?__**

__**How?**__ Communication evolved in many ways. We went from the Pony Express and telegrams to texts and E-mails. People have developed more advanced communication devices and we became more in-tune with our peers. Our world shrank drastically due to cell phones, computers, and pagers.

The telegraph is small machine that uses electric impulses to record and transmit data from one person to another. In 1794, a non-electric telegraph was made by Claude Chappe. It used a flag-based alphabet and a direct line of sight was required. Later, in 1801, a crude, electric telegraph was invented by Samuel Soemmering of Bavaria. In 1828, the first telegraph in the US was born. It was invented by Harrison Dyar who sent electrical sparks through a special paper that had been chemically treated to burn dots and dashes. Picture by: http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/archives/images/set2/telegraph1.jpg**
 * __THE TELEGRAPH__**
 * BELOW PICTURE: Antique original electric telegraph.



__**Who?**__ Who started the communication industry? No particular person started it. However, there are several people related to this industry, especially Alexander Graham Bell.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL--

Picture from: http://www.uunhf.org/unitarian/famous/Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3rd, 1847. He invented the "photophone" in 1876. The photophone vibratory beam of light is substituted for a wire in conveying speech. He also invented the telephone, which was patented in 1876. It was later called the telephone.

__**Why?**__ People need to communicate. Communication is a really big part of our everyday lives. Most of the teen population texts or IMs their friends on a daily basis, and many adults have cell phones and pagers. Communication was probably invented because people felt that they needed to be more connected.

__First Telephone Lines__
The first telephone line was a company that's still around today. AT&T owned the first telephone lines in the United States. They opened in 1876, following Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. They became the parent company of the Bell System, which was owned and operated by Alexander Bell himself.

Picture From: http://www.corp.att.com/history/

__**Wireless lines**__
Credit for inventing wireless telephone lines goes to a man named Nikola Tesla. Tesla came to America from the country of Lika in 1884. He spent the next 59 years in New York, perfecting Thomas Edison's lamps, electrical currents, etc. In the late 1880's he invented wireless connections and sound wave receivers.

<-- Nikola Tesla Picture from: http://www.electronicsandyou.com/electronics-history/Nikola%20Tesla.jpg

__**THE INTERNET**__ The internet is a huge part of our lives today. People can do everything on the internet, from shopping to dating to writing tips. A site for almost anything you want to know or get in on the internet. Communication is a big part of the internet too. E-mail, online dating, video conferences, and IMing are all communication on the internet. The internet was invented by several people. These people were all part of a internet project commitee called the ARPA. The internet! Picture from: http://bkachinsky.transworld.net/files/2009/06/internet.jpg

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