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First movable type made of clay, made in China by Pi Sheng
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Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type.
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Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.
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Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
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Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen.
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John Logie Baird transmits the first experimental television signal.
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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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