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The first electronic messaging service was found, called The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing telegraph company
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western unions first transcontential telegraph line
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Alexander Graham Bell Issued a Patent For the Telephone.
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Edison invents the Phonograph
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Emile Berliner Invents the first Microphone
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Emile Berliner Invents the flat record player "Gramophone"
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Louis Glass Invents the modern Jukebox
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Valdemar Poulson Invents Magnetic Wire Sound Recording.
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"Tin Pin Alley" Music Publishers began renting offices on 28th street in NYC.
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First Million- Seller song hit (sheet music) "After The Ball"
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An Orchrestra was used with (silent) motion pictures in london for the first time.
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Guglielmo Marconi is granted his first British patent for wireless telegraphy.
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Eldredge Johnson Perfects mass duplication of pre-recorded flat disks.
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RCA Victorla Model record player was introduced
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John Ambros Fleming makes the first vacuum tube called a "valve"
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Le De Forest first triode vaccum tube "Audion"
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First Double Sided Phonograph are introduced by Columbia
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Charles "Doc" Herrold and Ray Newby began experimenting "wireless voice' and music broadcasting.
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Disk recording overtake cylinders in the popular market.
Columbia drops cylinders. -
Edison Co. Finally Introduces a disk player
Now that the cylinder market is gone. -
First Transcontinental telephone call.
The call was made from New York to San Francisco. -
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Vitaphone is introduced
Vitaphone is a sound system that synchronized music and sound effcts with a motion picture. -
Bell Laboratories develops a 33 1/3 rpm disk to synch a music track
Bell Laboratoreies developed the disk system for The Warner Brothers Film "Don Juan" containing music composed by Willam Axt. The system is similar to the vitaphone. -
Scotsman John Logie Baird invents Mechanical Television
He called is the "Televisor" a postcard sized black and pink image with 30 scan lines running at the flickering 12 1/2 frames per second. -
Phil Farnsworth Transmits the first "electric television" picture
it was about the size of a postage stamp, and inch and a half square. This was done in his San Francisco Laboratory. -
Milton Berle First person to be seen on television.
He was seen on an experimental broadcast; but it would be another 20 years before his network tv show for texaco would be result in him becoming known throughout the country as "Mr.Television." -
scotsman John Logie Baird demonstrate his mechanical tv
transmitting its signal from England to the United States over the Antlantic ocean. -
Billboard Magazine publishes its first music chart.
The chart was of performed songs. -
Edison Co ceases the manufacturing of sound recordings.
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Phil farnworth transmits the first tv picture of a living person
The person was his wife, in his San Fracisco laboratory; the picture is only about 3 1/2 inches square -
Duke Ellington recording of "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
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Starts the swing music dance craze. -
RCA worked on a 33 1/3 rpm record system.
The system failrs becasue of the material does not stand up to repeated plays. sixeen more years will pass before a system of "long-playing' records is developed that is good enough for widespread consumer use. -
Vladimi Zworykin applies for a patent on a tv camera
Vaccum tube he calls the "iconoscope" -
The first episode of "The Lone Ranger" radio series debuts.
it debuted on radio station WXyz in etroit. Director Jim Jewell made the decision not to use the stuido Organ the music, but to score the new series with a recorded classical music "William Tell" overture. -
Western Union introduces the first "singing telegram" service
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Ricard M Hollingshead opened the first drive in movie theater
He opened the theater in Camden, New Jersery. His company was called "Park-in Theaters, in" -
Harry Lubke built an electronic television transmitter
He built it for the Don Lee System in Hollywood. It transmitted one hour per day, six days per week, using 300 scan lines at 20 frames per second, and claims to be the first TV station in the US -
The NBC Symphony Orchestra premiered
the broadcast began a 17 year run under the direction of Aturo Toscanini. -
Regular FM radio broadcating begins in New York City
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The first able tv system appears for carrying tv signal
the televisions got sgnals by wire into areas that are geographically remoted. the television was called Community Antenna TeleVisioion systems. -
The Audio Engineering Socierty is formed
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CBS tv broadcasted the first colored tv programs
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Rca finally gave in to market pressure
they start producing 33 1/3 microgroove LPs to compete with columbia and others. -
Zenith introduces the 'Lazy boy" television remote
the remote had a cable. -
CBS Eye Network logo debuts
Designed by network art director Willion Golden. -
The first episode of "I Love Lucy" aired
on the CBS television network. It was filmed with three cameras simultaneously in front of a "live" audience. -
The recording industry association of america is formed
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The first pre-recorded reel to reel tape is offered to sale.
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The first tansistor radio went on sale in the U.S.
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Swanson employee Gerry Thomas invents the frozen T.V. Dinner
he invented it to get rid of extra turkey. -
ampex Co. of Redwood City, CA demonstrated the first videotape system
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The "NBC Peacock" logo debuts
the symbol of compatible "living color" it was designed by Fred Knapp and the NBC graphics department under John J Graham. -
Compatible stereo disks and record players are offered for sale
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Sony introduces the first "solid state" TV set
the tv set uses transistors instead of vacuum tube. -
compact stereo tape cassettes and players are developed by Phillips
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Douglas C engelbart Demostrates the first computer mouse
which is made out of wood. -
The internet begins as a link between four university labs
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Ray Tomlinson created ARPANET and Email program
the EMail program called SNDMAG short for send message ARPANET (later internet) -
Gloria Gaynor records "Never Can Say Goodbye"
The first disco record on US radio -
The first all solid state video cameras are introduced
Bell Labs "CCD" (charge-coupled device) instead of an Image orthicon or Plumbicon camera tube. -
A four channel noise reduction system
it's an optical sound track for the 35 mm film it was introduced by the Dolby Labs -
Garrett Brown invents the gyroscopic steadicam
a motion picture camera stabilier mount, worn by the cameraman himself, first used in the movie "Rocky" -
The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" is the first hip hop record to reach top 40 radio
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The MTV Music TV Cable Network Debuts on air at Midnight
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The digital compact disc is introduced
it was introduced conglomerate -
The first CD realsed in Japan
It is a Bill Joel's "52nd Street" -
U.S. Computing student Fred Cohen created the ffirst computer virus
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NBC broadcasts the first television programs with stereo sound
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CEDAR Audio develops a Noise Reduction stystem
it fixed clicks, pops, and crackles from old records re-mastered for release on CD's. -
Phillips introduces a digital audio tape recorder
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Time Berners Lee programmed the first practical web browser
it was known as Nexus, incorportation both FTP and HTTP -
The "SoundScan" barcode tracking system of reporting music
recording sales begins to bring accurate sales figures to record charts; Country music is now a bigger segment. -
Moving picture exoerst group MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
it compressed audiofile format and becomes a international standard, and eventually the most popular format. -
The internet starts to "take off"
Junk mail begins and world wide web being discovered. -
personal computers outsell tv sets for the first time in the US
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Ebay starts out as "AuctionWeb.com"
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the DVD increases capacity
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The world falls in love with everything internet
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First regular transmissions of HDTV begin in major cities.
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recordable CD-R digital audio disc technology
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Internet bubble burst leading to a recession of the inflated tech industry
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First year recording sale actually decline
record industries blame online music swapping. -
Digital electronic books become a small part of publishing industry
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Apple computer introduces the Ipodportable music player
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DVD video disk players outsell VHS cassette players for the first time.
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F.C.C requires all new U.S telvision tv sets to include digital recerivers
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Retailers announed they will stop selling VHS cassette tapes
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Western Union stopped delievering telegrams
Their primar business is still money transfers -
TV screen gets more junked up by "Crawls"
banners at the bottom of the screen and other distracting dicisions of the screen in imitaiont of computer desktops.
