When we first had the development of the telegraph and then the telephone, we had just started to emerge into the world of communication with other means besides verbal talking and letter writing. At that time in history, people probably never dreamed that within a hundred years the entire world would be connected in so many ways and their groundbreaking technology was the beginning of it all.

The telegraph sent messages along wires that were strung from one place to another place. When a message was sent to a receiving station on the other end, it would still have to be delivered to a particular individual by a messenger or additional letter. It still was not an instantaneous process.

With the development of the telephone, much progress was made and it did in fact change the world. No longer did a decipherer have to decode a series of taps to determine the message. People could actually converse with one another over the lines. When phone lines crossed the oceans it advanced world communication to a level that had never before been possible or even dreamed of.

We take all of our communication methods for granted today, where as the primitive advances that were made a hundred years ago were miraculous to people living then. It is nothing today for us to be able to make phone calls almost anywhere we are thanks to satellites that do not have to be connected with wires to work. Satellites are one of the most beneficial inventions of all time. We use them not only to communicate by telephone, but through the internet and to provide us with advances in one of our other most incredible inventions, the television.

The television we get to watch through satellite allows us to know what is going on in the rest of the world at a moments notice and actually be able to see events as they unfold. Our recent ancestors were only to see pictures that were taken and then sent to various news papers when world events took place.

With the invention of the web cams that we now use on our personal computers, we can see a loved one on the other side of the world. We are so very privileged to be the inventers of such technologies as these. It will be even more wonderful to live long enough to see what more amazing things that might come along next.