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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used the Camera Obscura to create the first photograph. It required eight hours of light exposure to be seen and then quickly faded away.
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Louis Braille invents a system of reading for the blind, consisting of raised dots. Louis was blinded as a child, and published a book on braille the same year he invented it.
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Joseph Henry created the first telegraph by sendind an electric pulse over a mile of wire to strike a bell.
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Samuel Morse invents a code consisting of a series of dots and dashes that can be translated to form words.
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Samuel Morse creates the first long distance telegraph line.
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Alexander Bain recieves a patent for the first fax machine.
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The United States starts the pony express, a system of delivering mail to citizens of the U.S.
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Coleman Sellers invents the kinematoscope, a device that flashes a series of images on a screen to make them appear to be moving.
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Christopher Latham Sholes invents the first typewriter, a machine used to quickly write words in paper without using a pencil or pen, called typing.
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Alexander Graham Bell, with the help of Thomas Watson, invented the telephone, a device that allows for communication with the human voice across long distances.
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Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph, a machine used to make copies of papers.
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Melvyl Dewey invents the Dewey Decimal System, a system of ordering books in a library.
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Thomas Edison recieves a patent for the first phonograph. The first model used a wax cylinder as a medium.
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Thomas Alva Edison improves upon the incandescent light bulb, a device that creates light, to m ake them effective and inexpensive at the same time.
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Lewis E. Waterman invents the fountain pen, a device that allows for writing with ink without the need of an inkwell.
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George Eastman recieves a patent for the Kodak roll fim camera, a camera that uses film spun around a cylindrical tube to record pictures.
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Johann Vaaler invents the first paper clip, a device used to hold sheets of paper together.
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Philip B. Downing invents the first street letter drop mailbox with a hinged door.
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Frank Haven Hall invesnts a tryperwriter that types in braille. This invention is sometimes referred to as the Braillewriter, or the Brailler.
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Guglielmo Marconi promotes the first radio, invented by Nikolai Tesla, a device used to transmit radio waves across long distances.
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Lee Deforest invents the electronic amplifying tube, also called the triode. The triode allowed for all electronic signals, like radio and telephones, to be amplified, improving the quality of the signal.
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Tokuji Hayakawa invents the first mechanical pencil, a pencil that does not require sharpening, and instead must have strips of graphite placed inside to be used.
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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin creates the cathode ray tube, a device used in many television sets.
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The first ball point pen is invented by brothers Georg and Lazlo Biro. The ball point pen is used to write in ink without a inkwell.
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Edwin Herbert Land establishes the Polaroid company, a corporation that creates cameras and camera components.
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Chester Floyd Carlson invents xerography (meaning dry-writing in Greek), a process by which a paper copy is made without ink.
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Bessie Smith invents liquid paper, a material used for covering mistakes on white paper.
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The first cell phone was invented in the 1960's. Commercial models began appearing in Japan, introduced by NTT on December 3, 1979. They began appearing in other countries afterwards. Improvements continued to be made to them until, finally, you see what we have today.
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Zip codes were instated in the United States, allowing for more precise long distance shipping, among other things.
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In 1969, ARPAnet was created, the first form of internet ever. It was first created as a way of exchanging military information among places in the United States. There were a limited number of super computers at the time necessary for storing all the information, so it had no way of being transmitted until ARPAnet was created. It eventually became the internet as we know it today.