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The growth of the first commercial printing industry around London’s Grub Street
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Photography is invented
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The Telegraph is invented
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The Telegraph is commonly used
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The Phonograph is invented
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The first U.S. commercial radio station went on the air
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Networks that linked radio stations were made
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Newspapers, magazines, movies, phonograph records and radio programs were common place
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Broadcast television became mainstream
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Computers and the internet are now in use by the public