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Jun 1, 1049
First movable type invented - clay - invented in China by Pi Sheng.
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Mar 24, 1450
Newspapers appear in Europe.
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Mar 24, 1455
Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type.
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Mar 24, 1560
Camera Obscura invented - primitive image making.
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First daily newspaper - Leipzig.
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Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter.
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Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore
Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line. -
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.
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Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone.
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Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
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Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.
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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.
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American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.
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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.