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	Communications The Printing Press 1456 - The Gutenberg Bible published at Mainz by local printer Johann Gutenberg, 56, is a Vulgate bible that marks one of the earliest examples of printing from movable type in Europe. Gutenberg had taken 5 years to produce the bible, printing it in two volumes, folio, with two columns of 42 lines each per page. The Telephone 1876 - "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you," says Alexander Graham Bell on March 10 in the first complete sentence to be transmitted by voice over wire. Bell had improved the telephone he invented in 1875, had been granted a patent on his 29th birthday March 3, and used the instrument at 5 Exeter Place, Boston, to speak with his assistant Thomas A. Watson. Elisha Gray of the 4-year-old Western Electric Co. would challenge the patent, the courts would uphold Bell’s claim, and Western Electric would manufacture the Bell telephone. Computers Technology 1960 - The Imperimerie National at Paris introduced typesetting by computer. 1960 - Some 2,000 electronic computers were delivered to U.S. business offices, universities, laboratories, and other buyers. The figure more than double in the next 4 years and debate would rage as to whether computers wipe out jobs or create new ones. Communication Satellites 1963 - The first communications satellite was NASA's Echo 1, an uninstrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to earth and thus avoiding the curvature-of-the-earth limitation formerly placed on communications between ground-based facilities.. Later satellites, starting with NASA's Relay satellites and the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) Company's Telstar satellites, carried with them electronic devices for receiving, amplifying, and rebroadcasting signals to earth. The U.S. launching (1963) of the first synchronous-orbit satellite (Syncom 1) paved the way for the formation of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, whose successive series of Intelsat geostationary satellites have steadily lowered the cost of transoceanic communications. Source: Microsoft Bookshelf '95 -- Peoples' Chronology, Henry Holt & Company. Copyright 1994 by James Trager, All Rights Reserved. 2001 Today's communication technology's enables the user to communicate in both verbal and written form to anyone, anywhere, at any time almost instantaneously. We are blessed with 'wireless' communication systems as well as optic cabling - from Cellular Telephones and communications satellites to e-mail and Net Meetings. We have the ability to create, edit, transmit, store and retrieve documents of paramount importance to our business. We also have access to a vast amount of subject-specific information external to our own organization and area of expertise with the stroke of a few keys, saving us both time and money. Infrastructure information sharing is no longer limited to voice communication or hardcopy written transmittals. By taking advantage of computer technology and networking our computers, we have the ability to share files with others, whether they are thousands of miles or just a few steps away from our own office door. We are able to organize our electronic documents for easy retrieval, eliminate duplication of work and utilize our personnel more efficiently. From e-mail to appointment management, event calendaring to telephone message management, faxing to tracking, scanning to file records management, accounting to banking and money management, engineering to medicine, the communication tools available today through the use of computer technology are smart investment choices regardless of the size of your business. We at hyde.com can assist you in your communication hardware and software choices.