Mapping the Geography of Media

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    Neaderthal Picture

    Neaderthal Picture
    45,000 BC Neanderthal man carves a picture of a wooly mammoth
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    Pheonician Alphabet

    Pheonician Alphabet
    inscriptions older than around 1200 BCE
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    Homing Pigeons

    Homing Pigeons
    776 BC homing pigeons carry messager about the olympics for Ancient Greeks.
  • Jan 1, 1450

    First Newspaper

    First Newspaper
    First newspaper in europe.
  • Jan 1, 1455

    First printing press

    First printing press
    Johannes Gutenburg made printing press
  • Morse Code

    Morse Code
    In 1809 Samuel Morse invented crude telegraph, morse code little white dots that help blind people lern how to read
  • The First Microphone

    The First Microphone
    The fist microphone was created by Charles Wheatstone in the year 1821.
  • Electric Telegraph

    Electric Telegraph
    In 1831 Joseph Henry invented the electric telegraph .It was creat at British physicists.
  • Calotype photography

    Calotype photography
    Henry Talbat invents calotype photography. It was an early type of photography. It was a improvement over daguerreotype photography.
  • Fax Machine

    Fax Machine
    In 1843 Samuel Morse created the fax machine. A fax is a machince that sends paper to another machine.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    In 1867 Sholes was a U.S. mechanical engineer who invented the first practical modern typewriter, patented in 1868.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham. It let two or more people talk to each other.
  • Gramophone

    Gramophone
    On November 8 1887, Emile Berliner, a German immigrant working in Washington D.C., patented a successful system of sound recording. Berliner was the first inventor to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks or records.
  • Televison

    Televison
    The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
  • Braille

    Braille
    Frenchmen Louis Braille invents braille printing. This helps the blind read.
  • Televison Broadcast

    Televison Broadcast
    Radio popularity spreads with the "Golden Age" of radio. First television broadcasts in the United States. Movietone system of recording film sound on an audio track right on the film invented.
  • Satellite

    Satellite
    The Sputnik was created in 1957. It was invented at Nasa.
  • Internet

    Internet
    ARPANET - the first Internet started.
  • Internet (www)

    Internet (www)
    American government releases control of internet and WWW is born - making communication at lightspeed.