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Mar 4, 1450
printing
Newspapers appear in Europe. -
Mar 4, 1560
camera obscura
Camera Obscura invented - primitive image making -
Claude Chappe
Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line. -
Pony express
United States starts the Pony Express for mail delivery.
Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen. -
telegraph.
Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.
Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books. -
Wax Cylinder
homas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium. -
Iconoscope
The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - first television camera. -
television
Television broadcasts able to be taped and edited - rather than only live -
Apple I home
Apple I home computer invented.
First nationwide programming - via satellite and implemented by Ted Turner. -
3500-2900 BC
The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing - pictographs of accounts written on clay tablets.
The Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing.
