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first two sided phonoagraph
The first double-sided phonograph records are introduced by Columbia. Soon its
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The Telegraph
The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company is founded in Rochester, New York, which will become Western Union -- the first electronic message service (also offering the service of delivered Telegrams.)
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The Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes of Danville, PA and his colleagues, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soulé developed the first practical typewriter (and the QWERTY keyword.)
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The First Microphone
Emile Berliner invents the first microphone and sells the rights to Bell Telephone.
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The Phonograph
Edison invents the cylinder "phonograph" used to record and playback sound. Originally thought to be useful as a business machine for dictation (like the dictaphone which would come later.) Other uses: recordings of plays pre-dating Radio Drama nearly 50 years.
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magnetic wire sound recording
Danish inventor Valdemar Poulson invents magnetic wire sound recording
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The Modern Jukebox
Louis Glass invents the modern jukebox (coin-operated phonograph) and installsit at the "Palais Royal" saloon in San Francisco where it is an immediate hit.
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copyright agreement
The International copyright agreement is adopted between major countries
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Tin Pan Alley
Popular music becomes a serious business; Music Publishers begin renting office space on 28th street in New York City, near vaudeville theatres in an area that would become known worldwide as "Tin Pan Alley."
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The first "million-seller" song
The first "million-seller" song hit (sold via sheet music) was "After The Ball" by Charles K. Harris, who was both its composer and publisher.
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Piano music in a motion picture screening
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The Electric Theater
April 16 - "The Electric Theater" in Los Angeles is opened by Thomas L. Tally: the first Nickelodeon, a multimedia movie palace, that spawned imitators nationwide;
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the first vacuum tube
British scientist John Ambrose Fleming develops the first vacuum tube called a "Valve."
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The Herrold Station
Charles "Doc" Herrold begins the first regular public radio broadcasting of voice and music from his "wireless telegraph college" in San Jose, California; He calls it "The Herrold Station" and transmits to audiences from San Jose to San Francisco.
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Disk Player
Edison Co. finally introduces a disk player, now that the cylinder market is gone
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First transcontinental telephone call
First transcontinental telephone call from New York to San Francisco on July 29th.
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AM Radio
Commercial AM Radio broadcasting begins on KDKA, Philadelphia.
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sound system to synchronize music and sound effects with a motion picture.
Vitaphone introduces a sound system to synchronize music and sound effects with a motion picture.
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mechanical television
Scotsman John Logie Baird invents mechanical television which he calls a "Televisor", a postcard-sized black and pink (not black and white) image with 30 scan lines running at a flickering 12 1/2 frames per second.
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NBC
NBC -- the "National Broadcasting Company" begins as the first radio network.
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first "electric television" picture
On Sept. 7th -- Philo Farnsworth transmits the first "electric television" picture (about the size of a postage stamp, an inch and a half square) in his San Francisco Laboratory.
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Milton Berle first person seen on television
In the United States, a young comedian named Milton Berle is the first person to be seen on television, on an experimental broadcast; But it would be another 20 years before his network TV show for Texaco would result in him becoming known throughout the country as "Mr. Television."
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billboard magazine publishes first music chart of songs
Billboard magazine publishes its first music chart of performed songs.
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first TV picture of a living person
Philo Farnsworth transmits the first TV picture of a living person his wife, on Oct. 19, in his San Francisco laboratory.
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Sound Recordings
The Edison Co. ceases the manufacturing of sound recordings.
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improved tv pics.
To improve TV pictures, German scientist Fritz Schroeter applies for a patent on interlaced scanning
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recording of "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
The Duke Ellington recording of "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" starts the "swing music" dance craze.
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tv camera vacuum tube
Vladimir Zworykin applies for a patent on a TV camera vacuum tube he calls the "Iconoscope."
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the lone ranger
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first drive in movie theater
Richard M. Hollingshead opened the first Drive-In Movie Theater in Camden, NJ ...his company was called "Park-In Theaters, Inc."
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first feature-lenght motion pic.
The first "3-strip Technicolor" feature-length motion picture "Becky Sharp."
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radio jingle
National radio hit advertising jingle "Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot" is written by Eric Siday and Ginger Johnson.
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the "lazy boy"
The lazy boy is the first tv remote (it had a cable)
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the first color TV program
CBS television broadcast the first color TV program to five cities.
