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Almost 5,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, the papyrus plant was made into and used as paper. Papyrus paper was made from thin sheets of papyrus pith that were soaked in water, pressed together with the grains at right angles, and then dried
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On 31 August 1920 the first known radio news program was broadcast by station 8MK, the unlicensed predecessor of WWJ in Detroit, Michigan.
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The television was first successfully ran in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth
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In 1928, WRGB then W2XB was started as the world's first television station. It broadcasted from the General Electric facility in Schenectady, NY
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The Eninac was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It took up about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. Joke: what kind of tub that's sucks stuff kills ants. answer look down anteaters tubes.
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History. The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths , which was launched in 1663 in Germany
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Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was just a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The first automatic analog cellular phone was made in the 1960's. Commercial models were introduced in Chicago, USA, on October 13, 1983, by Motorola;
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“just setting up my twttr" was the first ever tweet posted on twitter.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest-known written story that can be called a book. It was written in ancient Sumerian around 18th century BC. But tge first bond book is the bible
