Inventions of Media Prior to 1900

By IssacDavis
  • Postal Service
    550 BCE

    Postal Service

    In 550 B.C., the Postal Service was invented in multiple countries and empires (not in the United States obviously because it did not exist yet.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    Although it was not electric, the invention of the telegraph was a huge step for people when it comes to communication.
  • Morse Code

    Morse Code

    Instead of using letters and words, Morse code was invented by creating a method including sequences and signals.
  • Telephone

    Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell had created another leap forward with the telephone. Now, messages can be sent more vocally and instantaneously
  • Radio

    Radio

    1 year after the telephone, radios were invented to not have people talk back and forth, but have one person give the news around the area to people in the city.

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