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The first bound books were created and used.
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Messengers came in by foot or on horse most commonly used in Egypt and China with messenger relay stations build.
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Tsai Lun of China invents paper as we know it.
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First wooden printing presses invented in China - symbols carved on a wooden block.
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First movable type invented - clay - invented in China by Pi Sheng.
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Newspapers appear in Europe
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Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type.
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Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line.
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Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
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Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.
Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine. -
The United States starts the pony express for mail delivery
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American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.
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Thomas 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. -
Thomas 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.
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George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.
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Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange.
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Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy.
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Romans establish postal services.
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Heliographs - first recorded use of mirrors to send messages by Roman Emperor Tiberius.
