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Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library opens to the public. It is the first "free municipal library" in the U.S. -
Oxford English Dictionary
Work begins on The Oxford English Dictionary. -
Typewritter Invented
Christopher Sholes invents the "modern" typewriter. Known as the Sholes Glidden, it is first manufactured by E. Remington & Sons in 1873. -
1st Coorespondence School
The Society to Encourage Studies at Home is founded in Boston by Anna Eliot Ticknor, daughter of Harvard professor George Ticknor. It's purpose is to allow women the opportunity for study and enlightenment and becomes the first correspondence school in the United States. -
Telephone Invented
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, though the true ownership of the invention remains controversial even today. -
Sound Recording Developed
Thomas Edison invents sound recording and patents the phonograph the next year. -
Color Images for Newspapers
Benday process for production of color images in newspapers -
Plastic Photographic Film
Charles Eastman invents plastic photographic film. -
Automatic Typesetting Machine
Linotype, the first successful automatic typesetting machine, set up at New York Tribune. -
Kintoscope Invention
Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device in which film is moved past a light. -
1st Film Projector
Two French brothers, Louis and August Lumiere patent a combination movie camera and projector, capable of projecting an image that can be seen by many people. -
Assoc. American Universities
The Association of American Universities is founded to promote higher standards. -
1st Community College
Joliet Junior College, in Joliet, Illinois, opens. It is the first public community college in the U.S. -
Modern Screen Printing
Modern screen printing process developed. -
Electronic Television
Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic television. -
Telephotography
Wirephoto transmitted by telephotography. -
Ditto Machine Invented
Spirit duplicator (ditto machine) developed. -
First 35mm Camera
Leitz markets a derivative of Barnack's camera commercially as the "Leica", the first high quality 35mm camera. -
Sound Movies Developed
Western Electric and Warner Bros. agree to develop a system for movies with sound. -
Color Television Invented
Peter Goldmark pioneers color television. -
Technicolor Invented
Inception of Technicolor for movies, where three black and white negatives were made in the same camera under different filters. -
Photocopier Invented
Chester Carlson invents Xerography (photocopying) developed in New York. -
Electronic Memory Proposed
US government scientist Vannevar Bush proposes a kind of desk-sized memory store called Memex, which has some of the features later incorporated into electronic books and the World Wide Web (WWW). -
1st Computer Invented
The computer age begins as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), the first vacuum-tube computer, is built for the U.S. military by Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. -
Transistor Invented
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor, which allows electronic equipment to made much smaller and leads to the modern computer revolution. -
Phototypesetting Developed
Phototypesetting developed.
