Mass Media Timeline

By katiebodine
  • First Newspaper in United States

    First Newspaper in United States

    The first ever newspaper was printed on September 25, 1690 in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • First Ever Telephone

    First Ever Telephone

    The first ever telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell.
  • First Film Camera

    First Film Camera

    The first film camera was created by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in 1888
  • First Radio

    First Radio

    The first radio was created by an Italian man by the name of Guglielmo Marconi.
  • First Television

    First Television

    The first ever television was successfully demonstrated in San Francisco by a 21 year old man named Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
  • First Computer

    First Computer

    The first computer was created by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • First Cell Phone

    First Cell Phone

    The first cell phone was created by a man named Martin Cooper, who worked for Motorola.
  • First Laptop

    First Laptop

    The first laptop was created by Adam Osborne in 1981.
  • First Apple iPhone

    First Apple iPhone

    The first apple iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple.
  • First Computer Tablet

    First Computer Tablet

    The first tablet was released by Apple in 2010 but Microsoft had one completed in 2002 but was beat by Apple in the end.