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Mass media timeline

  • 3300 BCE

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    The Egyptian’s perfect hieroglyphics.
  • 1500

    2

    2
    Printing books and pamphlets increases
  • 3

    3
    First newspapers in Europe
  • 4

    4
    Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
  • 5

    5
    Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio
  • 6

    6
    Joseph Maxwell introduces electrical microphones
  • 7

    7
    First TV transmission by Philo Farnsworth
  • 8

    8
    Audiotape is developed in Germany
  • 9

    9
    Color television replaces black-and-white in American homes
  • 10

    10
    iPod and MP3 format compressed digital files debut