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History of Media
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First Photograph
The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in approximately 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce using a very small camera of his own making and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light. Exact date unknown. -
First Stereoscope
The first patented stereoscope was invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838. Wheatstone had experimented with simple stereoscopic drawings in 1832, several years before photography was invented. Later, the two principles were combined to form the stereoscope. -
Binary Code
1875: Émile Baudot "Addition of binary strings in his ciphering system," which, eventually, lead to the ASCII of today. -
First Telephone
First patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell and further developed by many others, the telephone was the first device in human history that enabled people to talk directly with each other across large distances -
Invention of Phonograph
The 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 "Television"
In 1884 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a 23-year-old university student in Germany,[4] patented the first electromechanical television system -
Invention of Photographic Film
The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman, who started manufacturing paper film in 1885 before switching to celluloid in 1889. -
1st motion picture camera in US
The first motion picture camera patented in the United States was created by Thomas Alva Edison. -
First Electronic Computer
Conceived in 1937 by John Atanasoff, and built with the assistance of Clifford Berry,the machine was not programmable. It could only solve systems of linear equations. -
Invention of the Polaroid
An entirely new type of camera appeared on the market in 1948, the world's first viable instant-picture camera. -
1st Home Video Recorder
The Telcan, produced by the Nottingham Electronic Valve Company in 1963, was the first home video recorder. However, it could only record 20 minutes output at a time in black-and-white. -
Invention of Touch Screen
Historians consider the first touch screen to be a capacitive touch screen invented by E.A. Johnson at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK, around 1965 - 1967. -
First CDs
Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently from the mid-to-late 1970s. The two companies then collaborated to produce a standard format and related player technology which was made commercially available in 1982. -
Introduction of Digital Cameras
The first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P which recorded to a 16 MB internal memory card. -
1st MP3 Encoder
On 7 July 1994, the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder called l3enc.
