history of communication By dkemp.765 Jan 1, 1821 Nationals magazines (the saturday evening post) Jan 1, 1827 first african american newspaper (freedoms journal) Feb 5, 1879 congress gives discount postal rates to magazines Jan 1, 1894 Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio Feb 1, 1902 beatrix potters the tale of peter rabbit series launches small,easy to handle childrens book Jan 1, 1914 u.s based spanish paper (el diario-La Prensa) Jan 1, 1937 Walt Disney produces the first animated feature (Snow White) Jan 1, 1940 Audiotape is developed in Germany Jan 1, 1940 A.C Nielson conducts listener survey Jan 1, 1944 first large automatic digital computer is bulit at harvard Jan 1, 1950 black and white television becomes part of the adverage american home Jan 1, 1951 edward r murrow pioneers television news Jan 1, 1953 queen elizabeth 2 coronations at westminster abbey ushers in the television age around the world Jan 1, 1953 i love lucy 71.7% of viewers watch the episode of little rickys birth Jan 1, 1960 rise of professional books Feb 10, 1961 john fitzgerald kennedy , debuts live press conferences Jan 1, 1969 neil armstrong's walk on the moon is telvised in color globally Jan 1, 1976 cable is broadcast by ted turner Jan 1, 1980 hyber links to web Jan 1, 1981 IBM PC is introduced Jan 1, 1993 marc andrees