Visiontel Communications LLC history

1877: Acoustic phonograph: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison made incredible strides in sound recording and transmission when he completed the first acoustic phonograph in August of 1877.

1893: Wireless telegraphy: Nikolai Tesla was the first to successfully transmit radio waves wirelessly through a transmitter in 1893.

1927: Television: Phillip T. Farnsworth made media history on September 7, 1927, when he demonstrated the first working television set.

1930: First experimental videophones: In 1930, AT&T had decided to create a two-way experimental videophone they called the Iconophone.

1936: World's first public videophone network: The world, now in the throes of World War II, sees the first public videophone network installed in Nazi Germany in March of 1936 during a trade fair.

1956: Transatlantic telephone cable: The first 36-circuit transatlantic telephone cable was installed in 1956.

1964: Fiber-optic telecommunications: In 1964, Charles Kao and George Hockham published a paper that proved that fiber-optic communication could be possible as long as the fibers used to transmit the information were free of impurities.

1969: Computer networking: In October of 1969, the first data traveled between nodes of the ARPANET, a predecessor of the Internet.

1979: INMARSAT ship-to-shore satellite communications: The year 1979 was a big leap forward for maritime communications.

1981: First mobile phone network: The first commercially automated cellular network was launched in Japan in 1981.