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Print Media
Print media has been around for hundreds of years. The first invention that helped launch this idea of printing text was the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440. Over the next 600 years or so, print media developed as a primary source of news. -
Magazines in America
Magazines have been a part of American culture since American Magazine was first published in colonial America.By 1825 there were an estimated 100 magazines being published. This figure grew to more than 600 in 1850, with another four or five thousand titles having come and gone during that 25–year span. -
Sound recordings
That honor goes to Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a French inventor who in 1857 devised his phonautograph—a machine that inscribed the vibrations of airborne sounds onto a permanent medium. -
Phone
While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876. -
Motion Pictures
Since motion pictures were invented, audiences have loved how they tell stories. Movies enabled people to travel the world vicariously, and experience tragedy, love and nearly every other emotion. They were invented in 1888. By Thomas Edison and his British assistant William Dickson. -
Radio
The first practical radio transmitters and receivers were developed by Italian Guglielmo Marconi. -
Television and Video
The invented was a Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems. On 25 March 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London. -
New Media Trends
The invention of cable in the 1980s and the expansion of the Internet in the 2000s opened up more options for media consumers than ever before. Viewers can watch nearly anything at the click of a button, bypass commercials, and record programs of interest. The resulting saturation, or inundation of information, may lead viewers to abandon the news entirely or become more suspicious and fatigued about politics -
The Internet
In its initial form, the computer provided many benefits — both direct and indirect — to the magazine industry. One 1997 study reported that computer use was associated with an increase in the use of print, not a decrease. Tim Berners-Lee Invented this. -
Computers
Charles Babbage The inventor of the computer and it was very popular as you could do everything on it and now the technology these days you can even pay your bills online now.