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1814
1814
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image. -
1821
1821
Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone. -
1831
1831
Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph. -
1835
1835
Samuel Morse invents Morse code. -
1843
1843
Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine. -
1861
1861
United States starts the Pony Express for mail delivery.
Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen. -
1867
1867
American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter. -
1876
1876
Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.
Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books. -
1877
1877
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.
Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion. -
1887
1887
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again. -
1888
1888
George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera. -
1889
1889
Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange. -
1894
1894
Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy. -
1894
1894
Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy. -
1898
1898
First telephone answering machines. -
1898
1898
First telephone answering machines. -
1899
1899
Valdemar Poulsen invents the first magnetic recordings - using magnetized steel tape as recording medium - the foundation for both mass data storage on disk and tape and the music recording industry.
Loudspeakers invented. -
1902
1902
Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. -
1904
1904
First regular comic books. -
1906
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. -
1910
1910
Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture. -
1914
1914
First cross continental telephone call made. -
1916
1916
First radios with tuners - different stations. -
1923
1923
The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - first television camera. -
1925
1925
John Logie Baird transmits the first experimental television signal. -
1926
1926
Warner Brothers Studios invented a way to record sound separately from the film on large disks and synchronized the sound and motion picture tracks upon playback - an improvement on Thomas Edison's work. -
1927
1927
NBC starts two radio networks.
CBS founded.
First television broadcasts in England.
Warner Brothers releases "The Jazz Singer" the first successful talking motion picture. -
1930
1930
Radio popularity spreads with the "Golden Age" of radio.
First television broadcasts in the United States.
Movietone system of recording film sound on an audio track right on the film invented. -
1934
1934
Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.