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William Gilbert, scientist and physician to Queen Elizabeth I, invented the term electricity (from the Greek word for amber, elecktra). He was the first person to describe the earth's magnetic field and to realise that there is a relationship between magnetism and electricity.
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First daily newspaper
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Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter.
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Benjamin Franklin, famous U.S. politician, flew a kite with a metal tip into a thunderstorm to prove that lightning is a form of electricity. He was very lucky he wasn't killed. Don't try this at home!
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image
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the first microphone.
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Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
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Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine. -
George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.
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First telephone answering machines.
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Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
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First regular comic books.
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Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
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First cross continental telephone call made.
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First radios with tuners - different stations.
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The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - first television camera.
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Television broadcasts able to be taped and edited - rather than only live.
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Scheduled television broadcasts begin.
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Computers are first sold commercially.
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First cellular phone communication network started in Japan..
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American government releases control of internet and WWW is born - making communication at lightspeed.
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european reasearch team built the First robot able to develop and show emotions