This document discusses the history and development of information theory and communication systems. It provides a timeline of important developments in telegraph, telephone, radio, and data transmission technologies from 1830 to 1930. It also includes diagrams of a basic communication system model and equations for measuring information transmission rate and amount. The key contributors to early information theory are noted as Hartley, Nyquist, and Shannon through their seminal papers from the 1920s and 1940s.