tierneys timeline.

By tierney.crowley14

  • 1814

    1814
    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.

  • 1821

    1821
    Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone.

  • 1831

    1831
    Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.

  • 1835

    1835
    Samuel Morse invents Morse code.

  • 1843

    1843
    Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
    Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.

  • 1861

    1861
    United States starts the Pony Express for mail delivery.
    Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen.

  • 1867

    1867
    American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.

  • 1876

    1876
    Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.
    Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.
    Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books.

  • 1877

    1877
    Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.
    Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion.

  • 1887

    1887
    Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again.

  • 1888

    1888
    George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.

  • 1889

    1889
    Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange.

  • 1894

    1894
    Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy.

  • 1894

    1894
    Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy.

  • 1898

    1898
    First telephone answering machines.

  • 1898

    1898
    First telephone answering machines.

  • 1899

    1899
    Valdemar Poulsen invents the first magnetic recordings - using magnetized steel tape as recording medium - the foundation for both mass data storage on disk and tape and the music recording industry.
    Loudspeakers invented.

  • 1902

    1902
    Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1904

    1904
    First regular comic books.

  • 1906

    1906
    Lee Deforest invents the electronic amplifying tube or triode - this allowed all electronic signals to be amplified improving all electronic communications i.e. telephones and radios.

  • 1910

    1910
    Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.

  • 1914

    1914
    First cross continental telephone call made.

  • 1916

    1916
    First radios with tuners - different stations.

  • 1923

    1923
    The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - first television camera.

  • 1925

    1925
    John Logie Baird transmits the first experimental television signal.

  • 1926

    1926
    Warner Brothers Studios invented a way to record sound separately from the film on large disks and synchronized the sound and motion picture tracks upon playback - an improvement on Thomas Edison's work.

  • 1927

    1927
    NBC starts two radio networks.
    CBS founded.
    First television broadcasts in England.
    Warner Brothers releases "The Jazz Singer" the first successful talking motion picture.

  • 1930

    1930
    Radio popularity spreads with the "Golden Age" of radio.
    First television broadcasts in the United States.
    Movietone system of recording film sound on an audio track right on the film invented.

  • 1934

    1934
    Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.