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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.