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Paper is invented in china and now all records can be kept
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Gutenberg creates the printing pess and literacy spreads through Europe
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actual visuals of events can now be stored of people and history
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code the communication breaks the distance barrier at the time
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now can send a message fastest at its time breaking the barrier. before this the average speed a message could travel was 35 mph.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telophone. conversations break the distance barrier
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The Lumiere brothers present the 1st publicly shown film, some people are frightend
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The 1st radio broadcast in the US. the birth of the modern mass media
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This was the golden age of film, Hollywood transforms actors into national and international celebrities
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"The Jazz Singer" is the first "Talkie." Silent stars are now a memory.
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T.V. enters the home, commercials imvade
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Global networks revolutionize how people access info.