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.