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typewriter
Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter -
Telegraph Line
Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line. -
Microphone
Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter. At the U.S. Centennial Exposition, Emile Berliner had seen a Bell Company telephone demonstrated and was inspired to find ways to improve the newly invented telephone. The Bell Telephone Company was impressed with what the inventor came up with and bought Berliner's microphone patent for $50,000 -
Poney Express
United 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. -
Mimeograph, Telephone.
Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone. -
Gramophone
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again. -
Radio Signals improve
Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Televistion Camera
is a high-end device for creating electronic moving images (as opposed to a movie camera, that earlier recorded the images on film). Originally developed for use in television studios, they are now also used for music videos, direct-to-video movies, corporate and educational videos, marriage videos etc -
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NBC and Brodcasting
1927 NBC starts two radio networks.
CBS founded.
First television broadcasts in England.
Warner Brothers releases "The Jazz Singer" the first successful talking motion picture.
1930 Radio popularity spreads with the "Golden Age" of radio.
First television broadcasts in the United States.
Movietone system of recording film sound on an audio track right on the film invented.
1934 Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting