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  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.
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  primitive image making.
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  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.
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  was a visual or optica telegraph line
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  reproduces sound in a primitive sound box
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  a new form of communication and entertainment took the world by storm
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  broadcasts able to be taped and edited - rather than only live.
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  First nationwide programming - via satellite and implemented by Ted Turner.
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  in cars become wide-spread.
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  American government releases control of internet
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