Ever since the beginning of time human beings have looked for new and better ways to communicate. Mankind has come a long way since the days of cave drawings and smoke signals. Modern communications systems provide people with capabilities that the most innovative minds of yesteryear could not have conceptualized. The speed and accuracy of today's communications provides the user with a plethora of voice and data information. Technological advancements have transitioned the world from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. This Information Age has spawned a communications revolution that has presented vast opportunities to communications and business professionals with the proper measure of effort, results, and vision. Total Comm Systems was started in order to seize these opportunities.

Total Comm Systems History Timeline

2001 –	September 1st – Total Comm Systems is incorporated in the State of Pennsylvania.
2001 –	September 5th – Total Comm opens its first office.
2001 –	October 22nd – Total Comm begins “Billable Hours”.
2002 –	March 1st – Total Comm hires its first new employee.
2003 –	February 15th – Begins providing system drawings services.
2003 –	December 15th – Total Comm does its first million in sales.
2004 –	March 30th – Total Comm awarded Bucks County Pennsylvania install contract.
2004 –	May 15th – Total Comm opens new state of the art office.
2005 –	Total Comm awarded contract for Puerto Rico and becomes an international corporation.
2005 –	March 15th – Total Comm awarded M/A-COM contract for maintaining the Pennsylvania network.
2005 –	April 15th – Total Comm moves into Alcatel office in Harrisburg.
2005 –	September 1st – Total Comm awarded contract for rebuilding the Gulf States communications infrastructure after the largest natural disaster in American history; Hurricane Katrina.
2005 –	December 15 – Total Comm moves into new office in Harrisburg with state of the art administrative, training, and warehousing facilities.
2006 –	February 1st – Total Comm awarded contract with Department of Homeland Security.
2006 –	March 15th – Total Comm awarded three year maintenance contract with Pennsylvania OPRS.
2006 –	July 1st – Total Comm Construction is incorporated in the State of Pennsylvania.
2006 –	July 25th – Total Comm does its first five million in sales.
2007 –	December 12th – Total Comm does its first ten million in sales.

Communications History Timeline

3500 BC – The Phoenicians develop an alphabet.
776 BC – First recorded use of homing pigeons used to send a message
200 BC to 100 BC – Human messengers on foot or horseback common in
	Egypt and China with messengers relay stations built. Sometimes fire messages used from relay station to station instead of humans.

1714 –	Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter.
1793 –	Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line.
1821 –	Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box – the first microphone.
1831 –	Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
1843 –	Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
1843 –	Alexander Bain patents the first Fax Machine.
1876 –	Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph – an office copying machine.
1876 –	Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.
1887 –	Emile Berliner invents the gramophone – a system of recording which could be used over and over again.
1889 –	Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange.
1902 –	Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland – the first radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean.
1906 –	Lee Deforest invents the electronic amplifying tube or triode – this allowed all electronic signals to be amplified improving all electronic communications i.e. telephones and radios.
1914 –	First cross continental telephone call made.
1916 –	First radio with tuners – different stations.
1944 –	Computers like Harvard’s Mark I put into public service – government owned – the age of Information Science begins.
1951 –	Computers are first sold commercially.
1971 –	The computer floppy disc invented. The microprocessor invented – considered a computer on a chip.
1976 –	Apple I computer invented.
1979 –	First cellular phone communication network started in Japan.
1981 –	IBM PC first sold. First laptop computers sold to public. Computer mouse becomes regular part of computer.
1985 –	Cellular telephones in cars become wide-spread. CD-ROM’s in computers.
1994 –	American government releases control of internet and WWW is born – making communication at light speed.