Development of Mass Media

By Maejoyasia

  • First press in what would become U.S

    First press in what would become U.S
    In 1638, Mrs. Glover set up America's first press at the Massachusetts Colony's new college, Harvard.

  • First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences

    First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences
    The first newspaper published in America, was printed by
    Richard Pierce and edited by
    Benjamin Harris in Boston

  • First American Magazines

    First American Magazines
    The first two magazines in North America both began publication in January 1741.Ben Franklin set out with the idea to publish the first magazine in the American Colonies. Franklin’s intended magazine was to be titled The General Magazine, and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America and was to be issued in Philadelphia. However, on February 13, 1741 Andrew Bradford published in Boston his American Magazine.

  • First Phonograph

    First Phonograph
    The first phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound.

  • First Electronic Televison

    First Electronic Televison
    The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth.In 1938, he unveiled a prototype of the first all-electric television,

  • First Electronic Computer

    First Electronic Computer
    The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. The ENIAC is considered to be the first digital computer because it was fully functional.

  • First Telephone Pager to Motorola Pager

    First Telephone Pager to Motorola Pager
    The inventor's name was Al Gross and his pagers were first used in New York City's Jewish Hospital. MOTOROLA PAGERS
    The Motorola pager was a small receiver that delivered a radio message individually to those carrying the device. The first successful consumer pager was Motorola's Pageboy I first introduced in 1974

  • First 24-hour video music channel, MTV launched.

    First 24-hour video music channel, MTV launched.
    August 1, 1981, history was made when MTV, the first 24-hour video music channel, launched onto our television sets and literally changed our lives with the birth of the music video. The first video ever played on the network was quite ironic — “Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles

  • World's First Commercial Compact Disc Player

    World's First Commercial Compact Disc Player
    On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world's first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan

  • Google

    Google
    Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. It is the most popular Internet and Telecom Search Engine.