The document provides a history of telecommunications from smoke signals and drums to modern wireless networks and satellite systems. It discusses early fixed semaphore systems in Europe in the 1790s and the emergence of electrical telecommunication in the 1830s. The modern Internet began in the 1950s-1960s with the development of computers and point-to-point and packet switched networks like ARPANET. The document also covers bandwidth, satellite communications, and the relationship between telecommunications and meteorology.

1. Escuela Interamericana2011Telecommunications in our worldINFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGYAbiel Amaya Vega7th Grade<br />Telecommunications and Its history<br />T<br />he history of telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, the Americas and parts of Asia. In the 1790s, the first fixed semaphore systems emerged in Europe; however it was not until the 1830s that electrical telecommunication systems started to appear. This article details the history of telecommunication and the individuals who helped make telecommunication systems what they are today. The history of telecommunication is an important part of the larger history of communication.<br />Internet knowledge<br />A<br />lthough the history of the Internet arguably begins in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph system, the modern history of the Internet starts in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of computers. This began with point-to-point communication between mainframe computers and terminals, expanded to point-to-point connections between computers and then early research into packet switching. Packet switched networks such as ARPANET, Mark I at NPL in the UK, CYCLADES, Merit Network, Tymnet, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols. <br />What is bandwidth?<br />I<br />n computer networking and computer science, bandwidthnetwork bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidthis a bit rate measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it. <br />Satellite Communications<br />A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to COMSAT) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purpose of telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including geostationary orbits, Molniya orbits, other elliptical orbits and low (polar and non-polar) Earth orbits<br />For fixed (point-to-point) services, communications satellites provide a microwave radio relay technology complementary to that of submarine communication cables. They are also used for mobile applications such as communications to ships, vehicles, planes and hand-held terminals, and for TV and radio broadcasting, for which application of other technologies, such as cable, is impractical or impossible.<br />Telecommunications and meterology<br />Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, Meteorological phenomena are observable weather events which illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events are bound by the variables that exist in Earth's atmosphere; temperature, air pressure, water vapor, and the gradients and interactions of each variable, and how they change in time.though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries. Breakthroughs in weather forecasting were achieved in the latter half of the twentieth century, after the development of the computer.<br />