History of Mass Media

Newspaper

59 BCE

Julius Caesar created the first newspaper in 59 BC, it was to inform the public about important social and political events. The content of newspapers and newspapers, in general, have changed over time.

Mass Media

1453

Mass Media started when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1453 and that was used until the 20th century. There are many different arrays of Mass Media, television, recording, newspapers, magazines, radios, and more. Mass Media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience through mass communication.

Magazines

1663

The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen, a literary and philosophy magazine that was launched in 1663 in Germany. The Gentleman's magazine, it was first published in 1731 in London, was the first general-interest magazine.

Movies

1867

Movies were officially invented in 1867 by William Lincoln, but they really took off as the motion picture industry and 1895 when Louis Lumiere invented the first motion picture camera.

Radios

1895

Radios are one of the arrays of Mass Media out there. They were first made in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi. Then the birth of public radio broadcasting is credited to Lee de Forest who transmitted the world's first public broadcast in New York City on January 13th, 1910.

Television

1927

The first-ever electronic television was invented in 1927 by a 21-year-old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The first mass-produced electronic television set was called RCA 630-TS and was sold from 1946 to 1947.

Recording

1957

The first audio recording device was invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1957, before Edison's invention, and was called Phonautograph. It could record the audio but it couldn't play it back.