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Period: 100 to
evolution
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Feb 4, 1448
printing press
This method, combined with the use of paper, ink and a printing press allowed for books to be mass-produced, and greatly reduced the price. -
Feb 4, 1560
Camera Obscura invented
primitive image making. -
First daily newspaper
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Telegraph
The technology was particularly useful during wartime to transmit pertinent information, and the first telegraph stations were set up along railroads as the necessary poles were already erected. -
the first long-distance semaphore
was a visual or optica telegraph line -
Charles Wheatstone invented the first microphone.
reproduces sound in a primitive sound box -
Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
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Emile Berliner invents the gramophone -
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Radio
a new form of communication and entertainment took the world by storm -
television
broadcasts able to be taped and edited - rather than only live. -
Apple I home computer invented.
First nationwide programming - via satellite and implemented by Ted Turner. -
Cellular telephones
in cars become wide-spread. -
WWW is born
American government releases control of internet -
Skype Internet telephony
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iphone 5
