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Feb 8, 1446
gutenburg prress
johannes gutenburg intruduces moveable type printing press in germany -
first newspapers
fist new papers originated in europe -
cambridge press
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james framklin exercises the privelage of editorial independance
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ben franklin prints money after caling for paper currency
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first library
ben franklin founded the first library -
first american magazine
andrew bradford prints first american magazine -
sedition act
Text of the Aliens Act. Text of the Sedition Act. The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress, and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams in 1798. -
national magazines
the first National magazines were published -
first african american newspaper
the very first african american news paper was established. -
womens magazine pioneer
Sara Josepha Hale, womens magazine pioneer -
reading textbooks
William McGuffey begins writing reading text books -
editorial page
Horace Greeley introduces the editorial page -
telegraph line
first telegraph was set by samuel morse -
first photographed
james buchanen inauguration, first hotographed -
first transletic cable
A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland. The first communications occurred August 16, 1858, reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days – the time it took to deliver a message by ship – to a much shorter time. Tran -
licolns assassinarion reported by telegraph
abtaham lincoln -
uncle toms cabin
harriet becher stowes uncle toms cabin becomes the first blockbuster in us book publishing