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The growth of printing
The growth of the first commercial printing industry durning the early 18th century. As hand-operated printing presses were used to produce and reproduce thousands of copies of inexpensive literary products -
Communication technologies
A string of communication technologies were introduced during the 19th century, all of which were accelerated to the development of mass media. The invention of the steam powered printing press, coupled which increasing literacy rates, gave rise to mass circulation of newspapers and magazines. -
Photography
Photography was invented in the 1820s, and methods for reproducing photographs in the print media were improved throughout the century, making search media even more attractive to consumers. -
The telegraph
The telegraph was invented in the 1830s and impractical used by the late 1840s, was perhaps the single most important invention in the history of mass communication. Revolutionize existing media by supplying newspapers and magazines with a continuous stream of news dispatches from the region, the nation, and following the completion of the Atlantic cable in 1863. -
The phonograph
The photograph emerged as a mass medium as well invented in 1877, and achieve the wider use as electrification of homes allowed for replacement of hand cranks mechanical models. -
Music using the phonograph
The 1920s as commercial radios was used to popularize Music genres, created songs, and make stars of artists. The first US commercial radio station wins on the air in 1920, and radio networks linking stations in various parts of the country to carry a single program simultaneously, were first established in 1927. -
Television
Television first became a thing back in 1950, before that radios absolutely dominated television with their game shows but after Edward R. Morrow Switched over television that’s when it really started to pick up. -
The start of the Internet
The start of the internet became a thing back in 1969, it wasn’t until the 1990s and the launch of the first proper browser that the Internet became really popular that browser was Yahoo! -
Cable television
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.
