1

Smitha, F.E.

1999

The Sumerians

http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch01.htm

2

Parsons, M.

2003

The History of Ancient Egyptian Writing

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/ writing.htm

3

2004

China's postal service: a brief history

http://www.chinapost.gov.cn/upuxx/cywl/ eng/2.htm

4

Water telegraph

http://www.connected-earth.com/Journeys/ Telecommunicationsage/Thetelegraph/Firststeps/ Anancienttelegraph/anancienttelegraph.htm

5

2004

A brief history of Optics

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/ Physics/Optics/briefhistory/briefhistory.htm

6

Fredlund, W.

2003

History of Linear Perspective

http://www.westernmind.com/syllabus/ perspective.shtml

University of California at Santa Cruz

7

Davidson, M.W.

2005

Euclid (c.300 BC)

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/ euclid.html.

8

Russell, J.

2003

The Post

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/magazine/ magazine_home_post.html

The British Council

9

British Telecom

2004

How communication shapes the world.

http://www.connected-earth.com/Journeys/ Ourworldoftelecommunications/ Thesoundbarrier/Lineofsightcommunications/ Heliograph/heliograph.htm

British Telecom

10

J.Holzmann, G. and B. Pehrson

2002

The Early History of Data Networks.

http://vvv.it.kth.se/docs/early_net/ ch-2-1.2.html

11

Bellis, M.

2004

Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/ blJohannesGutenberg.htm

About.com

12

Barber, P

2004

A Brief History of Newspapers

http://www.historicpages.com/nprhist.htm

13

2004

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

http://www.scicom.lth.se/fmet/kepler.html

14

Koch, D.

2004

Johannes Kepler - His Life, His Laws and Times

http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/ johannes.html

15

Fitzpatrick, R.

2004

A brief history of geometric optics

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/302l/ lectures/node107.html

16

Joseph MacDonnell

Francesco M. Grimaldi, S.J. and his diffraction of light

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/ scientists/grimaldi.htm

Fairfield University, Connecticut

17

Hall, A.R.

1998

Isaac Newton

http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html

Microsoft Encarta

18

2004

Jupiter: gravity's speedometer?

http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2003/01/17/ 66.asp?t=dp

Discovery Channel

20

2005

Thomas Young

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/Y/Young-T1h.asp

Encyclopedia.com

21

2004

A brief history of Thomas Young

http://wise.fau.edu/~jordanrg/bios/Young/ Young_bio.htm

Florida Atlantic University

22

J J O'Connor and E F Robertson

2002

Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788-1827)

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/ Mathematicians/Fresnel.html

University of St Andrews, Scotland

24

Beavon, R.

2004

Samuel Morse

http://www.rod.beavon.clara.net/samuel.htm

25

2004

Telecommunications History Timeline

http://www.webbconsult.com/hist-time.html

Webb and Associates

26

O'Shea, J.P

1997

Early Typewriter History

http://sites.waldonet.net.mt/oshea/jo00002.htm

San Pietro Systems

27

Bell's Telephone

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html

The Franklin Institute Online

28

The invention of the phonograph

http://www.ushistory.net/toc/phono.html

29

Weisstein, E.W.

Maxwell, James (1831-1879)

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/ Maxwell.html

Wolfram Research

30

2002

The Gramophone

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/ berlgramo.html

US Library of Congress

31

Fowler, M.

1996

The Michelson-Morley Experiment

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/ lectures/michelson.html

University of Virginia

32

2004

Heinrich Hertz

http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/ people.php?id=1234576&lid=1

IEEE Virtual Museum

33

Jenkins, J.D.

The Discovery of Radio Waves - Heinrich Hertz (1847 - 1894)

http://www.sparkmuseum.com/HERTZ.HTM

34

Cossons, S.N.

2004

Guglielmo Marconi - The "Father of Radio"

http://www.marconiusa.org/marconi/

The Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, U.S.A

35

Who Invented Radio?

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html

American Public Broadcasting System

36

Sir John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945)

http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/ fleming.htm

37

1915

Marconi's Wireless Telephone

http://earlyradiohistory.us/1915mwt.htm

The Wireless Age

38

Newcomer, M.

2002

Airmail Research project

http://www.newksart.com/airmail.htm

39

Bellis, M.

2004

U.S. Postal System 1775-1993

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/ blmailus3.htm

About.com

40

Brock, R.

1997

Invention of the photon - Albert Einstein quantizing light

http://www.pa.msu.edu/~brock/d0_homepage/ physics-posted/surprise-photon.html

Michigan State University

41

Watkins, T.

Coherence in stimulated emission,

http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/stimem.htm

San Jose State University

42

Hills, A.R.

2002

Eye of the World: John Logie Baird and Television (Part II)

http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/ juhde/baird962.htm

43

Bellis, M.

2004

Inventors - John Logie Baird

http://inventors.about.com/library/ inventors/blbaird.htm

About.com

44

Bellis, M.

2004

History of Communications

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/ bl_history_of_communication.htm

About.com

45

2005

Magnetron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetron

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

46

Bellis, M.

2004

The Invention of Radio

http://inventors.about.com/library/ inventors/blradio.htm

About.com

47

Carlson, W.

2003

The history of computing technology

http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/ lesson1.html

48

Haviland, P.D.B.

2004

The Transistor

http://nobelprize.org/physics/educational/ transistor/history/

Nobelprize.org

49

Gray, G.

2001

UNIVAC I: The First Mass-Produced Computer

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/ randy.carpenter/folklore/v5n1.html

Unisys History Newsletter

50

Remeza, P.

2004

History [of computing]

http://www.cs.cuw.edu/csc/csc175/ project/remeza/history.html

Concordia University Wisconsin

51

2004

History of IBM - 1950s

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/ decade_1950.html

IBM

52

Bellis, M.

2004

Color Television History

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/ blcolortelevision.htm

About.com

53

2001

Watching TV - A timeline of television history

http://www.civilization.ca/hist/tv/tv02eng.html

Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation

54

Alwayn., V.

2004

Fiber-Optic Technologies

http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/ article.asp?p=170740

Cisco Systems

55

2004

The History of the Integrated Circuit

http://nobelprize.org/physics/educational/ integrated_circuit/history/

Nobelprize.org

56

2002

Theodore Harold Maiman

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/96.html

National Inventors Hall of Fame

57

Bellis, M.

2004

Laser History - Gordon Gould, Charles Townes, Arthur Schawlow, Theodore Maiman

http://inventors.about.com/library/ inventors/bllaser.htm

About.com

58

Griffiths, R.T.

2002

From ARPANET to World Wide Web

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap2.htm

Leiden University

59

Caslon

2004

Australasian telecoms

http://www.caslon.com.au/ austelecomsprofile1.htm

Caslon Analytics Pty Ltd

60

Warner, W.W.

2004

Great moments in microprocessor history

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/ library/ pa-microhist.html

IBM

61

Weyhrich, S.

2003

Apple history

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/ offsite.htm?site=http

About.com

62

Bellis, M.

2004

History of Cellular Phones

http://inventors.about.com/library/ weekly/aa070899.htm

About.com

63

Lin, S.

2004

Mobile Phones - Technology

http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/ Mobile_Phones

The M/Cyclopedia of New Media

64

2005

Compact disc history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

65

Bellis, M.

2004

The History of the IBM PC

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/ aa031599.htm

About.com

66

Zeltser, L.

1995

The World Wide Web: Origins and beyond

http://www.zeltser.com/WWW/#About_WWW

67

Farley, T.

Mobile Telephone History

http://www.privateline.com/PCS/history10.htm

68

Ewing, L.

2004

What is Photonics?

http://tuxteachesphotonics.tripod.com/introduction

Tux Teaches Photonics

69

Goff, D.R

2004

A Brief History of Fiber Optic Technology

http://www.fiber-optics.info/fiber-history.htm

Force, Incorporated

70

Cunningham, D.

2005

The world's first practical micro-electro-mechanical optical switch

http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1999/ february/23/1.html

Lucent Technologies