rm77
2012-05-17, 08:43 PM
Hi;
Today is the World Telecommunication Day ,it commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union in 1865. The first World Telecommunication Day was celebrated in 1969. Since then the 17th of May has been observed as World Telecommunication Day every year.
The World Telecommunication Day celebrates and acknowledges the following developments that have taken place over the years:
Invention of the first electric telegraph in 1837.
International Telegraph Union Found by twenty States with the adoption of the first Convention and in 1865, the introduction of first Telegraph Regulations
Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
First provisions for international telephone service took place in 1885.
First signals transmitted by radio-relay system in 1895.
First radio transmission of human voice in 1902.
Broadcasting of voice and music through radiotelephony in 1906.
Sound broadcasting pioneered in 1920.
Invention of telegraph in 1932.
International Telecommunication Union becomes a special agency of United Nations in 1947.
World’s first artificial satellite Sputnik-I launched in 1957
1983 was celebrated as the “World Communications Year”.
Today is the World Telecommunication Day ,it commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union in 1865. The first World Telecommunication Day was celebrated in 1969. Since then the 17th of May has been observed as World Telecommunication Day every year.
The World Telecommunication Day celebrates and acknowledges the following developments that have taken place over the years:
Invention of the first electric telegraph in 1837.
International Telegraph Union Found by twenty States with the adoption of the first Convention and in 1865, the introduction of first Telegraph Regulations
Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
First provisions for international telephone service took place in 1885.
First signals transmitted by radio-relay system in 1895.
First radio transmission of human voice in 1902.
Broadcasting of voice and music through radiotelephony in 1906.
Sound broadcasting pioneered in 1920.
Invention of telegraph in 1932.
International Telecommunication Union becomes a special agency of United Nations in 1947.
World’s first artificial satellite Sputnik-I launched in 1957
1983 was celebrated as the “World Communications Year”.