Key Events on Media History

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  • Newspaper

    Newspaper
    The worlds first newspaper was released in 1605 in Stenberg Germany and the newspaper had the name of Relation. Johan Coralas released it in the German language.
  • Radio

    Radio
    In 1866 an american dentist named Mahlon Loomis demonstrated the first use of wireless telegraphy becoming the first person to successfully create radio.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1870's. He was not the only person who had come across the same idea. About 2 hours after Bell handed in his invention someone by the name of Elisha Grey tried to hand in the same thing. They both had legal wars on this issue and Alexander Graham Bell emded up winning the dispute.
  • Televison

    Televison
    The first televison was invented in 1923 by a Scottish man named John Bogie Baird in a city in England called Hastings. It had its first demenstration in 1925 In London England in a department store called Selfridges. John Baird called his first televison a televisor.
  • Satellite

    Satellite
    The first satellite that was launched into space was called Sputnik. It was the first publicly recognized artificial satellite. This satellite was launched in Russia and was part of the Russian Space Program(USSR).
  • Video Games

    Video Games
    The first video game was a game called Tennis For Two and it was the forerunner for video games. Two players would have individual controllers that would connect to a single console. They used an oscilloscope as a monitor to see the game on.
  • Cell Phone

    Cell Phone
    Dr. Martin Cooper is a former general manager for the systems division at motorola and is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and is the first person to make a phone call from a cellular device.