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The Invention of Newspapers
In the english speaking world, the earliest predecessors of the newspaper were corantos, small news pamphlets produced only when some event worthy of notice occured. The first successively published title was the weekly news of 1622. -
The Invention Of Comic Books
In 1827 Switzerlands Rudolphe Topffer created a comic strip and contininued on to publish seven graphic novels. In 1837, "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" was published by Rudolphe Topffer amd it is concidered the earliest known comic book. "Obadiah Oldbuck" was a fourty page book. Each page had several picture panels with accompanying text underneath. -
The Invention of Fax Machines
The first fax machine was invented by Scottish mechanic and inventor Alexander Bain. In 1843, Alexander Bain recieved a British patent for "improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs", in laymen's terms of fax machine. -
The Invention of the Radio
In 1866, Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, succefully demonstrared "wireless telegraphy." Loomis was able to make a meter connected to one kite cause another one to move, marking the first known instance of wireless aerial communication. -
The Invention Motion Phonograph
The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. While working to improve the efficiancy of a telegraph transmitter, he noted that the tape of the machine gave off a noise resembling spoken words when played at high speed. This cause him to wonder if he could record a telephone message.he began experimenting with the diaphragm of a telephone reciever by atatching a needle to it. He figured that the needle could prick paper tape to record a message. -
The Invention of The First Freely Programmable Computer
Konrad Zuse was a construction endineer for the Henschel Aircraft company in Berlin. Konrad Zuse earned the semiofficial title of "inventor of the modern computer" for his series of automatic calculators, which he invented to help him with his lengthy engineering calculations. Zuse realized that an automatic calculator device would require three basic elements:a control, a memory, and a calculator for the arithmatic -
The Invention of Video Games
The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle ray Mann on a cathode ray tube. The patent was filled on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948. The game was a missile simulator inspired by radar displays from world war 2. It used analog circuitry, not digital, to control CRT beam and position a dot on the screen. Screen overlays were used for targets since graphics could not be drawn at the time. -
The Invention of Digital Cameras
In 1951, the first video tape recorder captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses (digital) and saving the information onto magnetic tape. -
The Invention of the Laptop
Designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for grid systems corporation, the grid compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory laptop computer with dir-cast magnesium case and folding electroliminesecent graphics display screen. -
The Invention of the Ipod
The ipod first generation was apples first ipod. Among the ipod's innovations were its small size, achieved useing a 1.8' hard drive, where as its competitors were useing a 2.5" hard drives at the time, and its easy-to-use navigation, which was controlled useing a mechanical scroll wheel, a center select button, and 4 auxiliary buttons around the wheel.
