Now Communications history

The first recorded machine to put letters onto paper was in 1575, but the first time the typewriter was considered a commercial success was when Sholes and Glidden released theirs in 1873.

Technically, the first air mail was by hot air balloon in 1785 between Dover and Calais, but the first recorded aeroplane delivery occurred in 1911.

Echo 1 was launched on 10th July 1962 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. It was a 30m (98 ft) diameter balloon with a reflective aluminium coating, allowing radio and television signals to be passively reflected back to Earth.

Motorola developed the first handheld mobile phone in 1973, though there had been widespread usage of mobile telephone communication via radio telephony and transceivers prior to that through use of walkie-talkies and phones in cars.

The first text message in the UK was sent on 3rd December 1992 from Neil Papworth at SEMA Group to Vodafone with the message 'Merry Christmas'.

The most people singing live on a radio broadcast is 6,689 and was achieved by The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (Hong Kong) at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong, on 6th December 2014.

Whilst wearable technology has been with us before 2015, this year is the first time we’ve been able to communicate using wearable devices, with the Apple Watch being one example and the Moto watch being another.