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new york mississippi valley printing telegraph company is founded in rochester
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new york and mississippi printing telegraph company acquired several competing companies and changed its name to western union
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new york and mississippi printing telegraph company acquired several competing companies and changed its name to western union
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christopher and coleages developed the first practical typewriter
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the remington arms company sighs a deal to market soles
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edison invented the cylinder phonograph used to record and play back sounds
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emile berliner invented the microphone
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emile berliner invented the flat record player
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louis glass invented the modern jukebox
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an orchestra is used in silent motion pictures in london
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Eldredge Johnson perfects first system of mass duplication of pre-recorded flat disks
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The Electric Theater in Los Angeles is opened by Thomas L. Tally
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RCA Victor's Victrola model record player is introduced.
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The first double-sided phonograph records are introduced by Columbia
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Mary Pickford becomes the first American Motion Picture Star via her silent films
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Disk recordings overtake cylinders in the popular market. Columbia drops cylinders.
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First transcontinental telephone call from New York to San Francisco
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commercial AM Radio broadcasting begins on KDKA, Philadelphia
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Electrical records replace acoustic discs
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Dutch- born Iwan Surrerier re-designs hes rear-projection device for home viewing movies into a machine to make film editing easier, and sold his first one to Douglas Fairbanks.
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The NBC-TV series "Hank McCune Hall" used laugh tracks from other shows on
its soundtrack since it was filmed without a studio audience, and the era of "canned
laughter" began; later that year a CBS-TV engineer named Charlie Douglas made a
device that could produce a "laugh track" using multiple tape loops, which could be
played like a "laugh organ", and began a company to supply this service to producers. -
The "CBS Eye" network logo debuts on September 10, 1951, designed by network art
director William Golden. An animated version debuted on the air on October 17th -
The first ID jingle company to "sing-over" pre-recorded backgrounds - PAMS, Inc. is
formed in Dallas, Texas by former radio studio musician Bill Meeks on August 20 -
The First public RCA "compatible-color" TV broadcast was an episode of NBC's
"Kukla, Fran and Ollie" on August 30th; The first regularly scheduled prime-time
series in RCA compatible color was on Nov. 22nd (NBC's "Colgate Comedy Hour". -
The first pre-recorded reel-to-reel tape (at 7 1/2 ips) is offered for sale
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The First "transistor radio" went on sale in the U.S. named The Regency TR-1
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On March 25, the first color television sets rolled out of the RCA Victor factory
in Bloomington, Indiana; (The model CT-100 had a 12-inch screen, and a suggested
retail price of $1000. A total of 5,000 model CT-100 sets were made.) -
Swanson employee Gerry Thomas invents the frozen "T. V. Dinner" to get rid of extra
turkey. He received a $1000 bonus from the company and a pay increase to $300 per month.
At first the company received letters from irate husbands who wanted their wives to continue
"cooking from scratch" like their mothers. But soon the idea was widely accepted, and the
segmented aluminum dinner compartments (inspired by airline food containers) fit nicely -
Larger 12" LP's overtake 10" LP's as the preferred size for long-playing records.
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NBC debuts a weekend radio network format called MONITOR on Sunday, June 12th,
a creation of Pat Weaver, who also created NBC's Today and Tonight Shows -
The "NBC Peacock" logo (symbol of compatible "Living Color") debuts in July,
designed by Fred Knapp and the NBC graphics department under John J. Graham. -
Ampex Co. of Redwood City, CA demonstrates the first videotape system in February
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Compatible Stereo disks and record players are offered for sale (33 1/3 and 45rpm.)
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Sony introduces the first "solid-state" TV set, using transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
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FM Stereo radio broadcasting begins and FM slowly starts to gain respect.
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Multitrack analog tape recording starts being used in recording studios
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Ivan Sutherland does his M.I.T. Doctoral Thesis on Interactive Computer Graphics
creating a "Sketchpad" program using an interactive light pen instead of a mouse;
which leads to the first practical uses of interactive graphics on computers. -
Compact tape cassettes and players are developed by Phillips originally for dictation.
Despite a sneak preview at a Berlin fair on August 30, its "official" introduction
to the world was at Phillips headquarters in Amsterdam on September 13.
Who would have thought its use as a portable music medium would still be alive
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Gloria Gaynor records "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- the first disco record on US radio
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Martin Cooper of Motorola conceived the first cellular phone system, and led the
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internet music swiping site napster is created
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the first year recording sales went down
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dvd's were intruduced
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digital books become a part of publishing industries
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internet bubble exsploded shaking internet industries
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napster i forced to censor content due to lawsuit
