1800 to 2010

By taylor.dawn

  • photograph image

    1814 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.

  • frist mic

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

  • electric telegraph

    1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.

  • morse code

    1835 Samuel Morse invents Morse code.

  • frist fax machine

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

  • pony express

    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.

  • modern typewriter

    1867 American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.

  • copying machine

    1876 Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.

  • phonograph

    1877 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.

  • frisy moving pictures

    Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion. in 1877

  • gramophone

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

  • kodak roll film camera

    1888 George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.

  • direct dial telephone

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

  • wireless telegraphy.

    1894 Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy.

  • First telephone answering machines

    1898 First telephone answering machines

  • data storage

    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.

  • the frist radio statshion

    1902 Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the frist radio statshion Atlantic Ocean

  • First regular comic books.

    1904 First regular comic books.

  • 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.

    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.

  • First radios with tuners

    1916 First radios with tuners - different stations

  • first talking motion picture.

    1910 Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.

  • First cross continental telephone call made.

    1914 First cross continental telephone call made.

  • television or iconoscope

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

  • first experimental television signal.

    1925 John Logie Baird transmits the first experimental television signal.

  • warner brothes and the studios

    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.

  • NBC starts two radio networks.

    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.

  • Radio popularity spreads with the "Golden Age" of radio.

    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.

  • first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.

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

  • Television broadcasts able to be taped and edited - rather than only live.

    1938 Television broadcasts able to be taped and edited - rather than only live.

  • Scheduled television broadcasts begin.

    1939 Scheduled television broadcasts begin.