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Chinese sew pages to make stitched books.
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Metal plates are used in printing.
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Legalized, regulated private postal systems grow in Europe.
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In London, Wheatstone constructs a microphone.
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Wheatstone and Cooke patent an electric telegraph in England.
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Bell invents the telephone.
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A photograph is transmitted by wire in Germany.
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The first broadcasting stations are opened.
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Baird demonstrates an electro-mechanical TV system.
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TV news "comes of age" in reporting JFK assassination.
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Intel builds the microprocessor, "a computer on a chip."
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The IBM PC.
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In Sumer, pictographs of accounts written on clay tablets.
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T'sai Lun invents paper.
