timeline

By bobright667
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    Invention of the printing press

    Invention of the printing press
    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was used up until the 20th century.

  • Motion pictures & Cinema

    Motion pictures & Cinema
    The first commerical exhibition of motion pictures was given in New York City using 10 Kinetoscopes.

  • First Commercial Radio Broadcast

    First Commercial Radio Broadcast
    Radio station KDKA in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania produced the first commercially recognized radio broadcast.

  • TIME Magazine

    TIME Magazine
    Briton Hadden and Henry Luce created the first weekly magazine in the United States.

  • Television

    Television
    Philo Farnsworth is credited with inventing the current system of television.

  • First satellite

    First satellite
    Soviet Russia launched Sputnik 1; the first artificial satellite to be put in orbit. Satellites are used for a number of things including communication, military, weather, and research.

  • The first laptop

    The first laptop
    Adam Osborne developed the Osborne 1 which was considered to be the first actually portable laptop

  • The first smartphone

    The first smartphone
    IBM Simon was the first "smartphone" invented. It had a touchscreen and some familiar features like calendar and game functions.