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The Gutenburg printing press was the first mass media device. It introduced modern book printing. Spread news farther than anything before it.
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Invention of Electric Telegraph by George Louis Lesage
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Invention of Typewriter by W.S. Burt
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Invention of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
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Invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison
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The Phonograph was the first consumer product designed for reproducing sound recordings.
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Radio stations started broadcasting in the beginning of the 20th century. This brought the new concept of listening to radio programming into more peoples homes on affordable radios. Radio audience grew very fast.
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commercially available to consumers by the 1930's.
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First handheld Mobile Phone by John Mitchel, and Martin Cooper
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Color television has gone a long way. Guillermo González Camarena is known as the father of this technology.
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Large network of computers grew faster than anyone imagined. Reached 50 million in 4 years
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Changed the way we listen, store, and purchase music. Reached 50 Million people in 3 years
