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Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
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Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.
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Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy.
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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
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Radio popularity spreads with the "Golden Age" of radio.
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Computers are first sold commercially.