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The first nobel prizes were awarded in Chemisty Physics Medicine and Peace. The nobel prize was created by Alfred Nobel
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Felt that education was the key to civil rights so she started a school to educate black people at a time where that was not common.
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A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit San Fransisco for about 1 Min. This caused much devistation for the people about 28,000 buildings were destroyed
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She was the first non-sick looking carrier of typhoid fever and spread it to many people.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on February 12, 1909. After a race riot in Springfield, Illinois in 1908, "The Call" went out to Northerners to find a way to create social equality.
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BSA was founded and first presented on the media
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Mount Katmai in southwest Alaska erupts in one of the largest recorded volcanic expulsions in the history of the world. It was designated Katmai National Monument in 1918 as protection against future eruptions. This was spreaded by the media
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Mass media made Babe Ruth famous
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The construction of the Panama Canal comes to a close when President Woodrow Wilson begins the explosion of the Gamboa Dike. Mass media helped get this done.
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Alexander Grahm Bell was given the honor of making the first transcontinental phone call. He called San Fransisco from New York
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Airmail service is begun by the United States Post Office Department with regular service between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.
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Radio was the first way to reach large audiences without physically being represented. This was a huge step in sharing information throughout the world.
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First magazine presenting news invented
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This act required radio's to act in the "pubic interest."
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n 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery from an already discarded, contaminated Petri dish. The mold that had contaminated the experiment turned out to contain a powerful antibiotic, penicillin.
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When the Empire State Building opened on May 1, 1931, it was the tallest building in the world - standing at 1,250 feet tall.
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Around 9:35 p.m., FDR finished his speech and had begun talking to some supporters who had gathered around his car when when five shots rang out. Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara, an Italian immigrant and unemployed bricklayer, had emptied his .32 caliber pistol at FDR.
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Roosevelt attempted to sue the masses by advising them through the depression everyday.
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Early cable competed with radio as black and white shows were put on screen.
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First large automatic digital computer that was built at Harvard
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Begin first newscast
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New music forms challenging stuff. The kids and teens had their own music and became their own demographic.
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Though invented earlier, in the 1950's TV became an essential way for people to reach mass target audiences. Though it only allowed for one way communication, it still was a significant soucre of information to those that could afford it.
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Color TV was wapproved by FCC. It enhanced the quality of telecast and alllowed for a better picture and detail.
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These allow music to become portable. People began taking their music wherever they wanted to.
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Rise of a network television viewing. There are more people watching TV and receiving messagies and ads. This helps the economy and the medium of TV.
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FM radio became about music, very clear and good quality.
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Occupational groups such as businesses are targeted
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Space Wars- video games became one of the highest yearly grossing idustries, eventually.
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Cosmo was a leading magazine that interested women. This magazine paves the wy for specialized subjects in magazines.
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Shut down because of competition with television.
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People first assemble these.
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Mass marketed magazine.
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First online newspaper with columns that would become popular once the Internet had higher popularity.
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With the ability to send information almost anywhere in the world using the world wide web would become essential to mass media as we know it. This would be the turning point for vast amounts of information to be shared and stored.
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Media Mongul Ted Turner establishes CNN
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People are now capable of burning information onto portable dics and put it elsewhere.
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Millions watch Royal wedding on BBC
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Michael Jackson releases his hit album, media helped make it spread.
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FCC approves cell phones for public use and they begin to integrate them into normal life
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Computers become mroe common and the world speeds up.
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In response to outrage over films too violent for PG-13 but ot mild for "R" rating the MPAA creates the PG-13 rating
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Nickelodeons were developed; where underpaid workers went to blow off steam after a long day of work. Just a nickel to watch a short film.
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A virtual reunion site called 'classmates.com' which inspired later platforms like MySpace and Facebook. Still has 57 million registered users to date.
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Dreamcast. Online gaming allows for people around the world to entertain themselves by competing ith or against other people.
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Music files are now electronic and can have many songs or files on a small device.
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Allows for people to access music an other files instantly
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Between 2003-2010 the popular social media platforms we know today came to be in this order: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and snapchat. There are many related sites to these that have also come to be in the last 6 years and will continue to grow and change.
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The emergence of cell phones was big since you could be mobile and talk to people, but smartphones are even bigger than that. With smart phones people, for the first time in history, have instant new information on them at all times.
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Able to legally buy music online.
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A person hardly has to leave the house to do anything they want
