Communication-History

Communication is a process that started perhaps even before we knew how to write or spell the word "communication". Communication probably dates back to the advent of life itself. What evolved from simple body language or ancient pictorial messages carved on rocks, metamorphosed into rather evolved channels of communication like the telephone, television and of course the World Wide Web that has evidently brought the world closer.

Communication-History
Although various complex theories and principles exist, communication can be simply defined as a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior (obviously the term is not limited to human beings because animals have their own way of communicating too). Let us now delve into the history of communication through the ages of civilization.

Communication-History
Tele-communication:The Semaphore or the optical telegraph system was an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals. The system used towers with pivoting blades or paddles, in a matrix. Information was encoded by the position of the mechanical elements and the message can be interpreted by the position of the blade. Although the mention of the idea of a semaphore has been recorded in the name of an English scientist Robert Hooke, the idea was put to practice in France during the 1700s, when an engineer called Claude Chappe covered France with a network of 556 stations over a distance of 4,800 kilometers.