Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter
1793Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line.
1814Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.
1821Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone.
1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph
1835 Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.
186 1United 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.
American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.
1876Thomas 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.
1877Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion.
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again.
