History of Mass Media

By GraceMalarkey
  • 100 BCE

    Paper is invented

    Historical records and stories can now be stored
  • 1445

    Printing press

    Gutenberg invented this and literacy now spreads through Europe

  • Photography

    actual visual records of people and history can now be stored

  • Morse Code

    Samuel Morse invented this & now communication breaks the distance barrier

  • The Telegraph

    text communication breaks the distance barrier

  • Film

    Lumiere Brothers presented the first publicly shown one and some people are frightened by it

  • 1st radio broadcast in U.S.

    This is the birth of the modern mass media

  • Golden age of film

    Hollywood turns actors into national and international celebrities

  • Television

    Has now "entered" the home and commercials "invade"

  • Computers

    Apple sells the first home computers