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Mass media

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  • Invention of Printing Press
    Jan 1, 1440

    Invention of Printing Press

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was used up until the 20th century.
  • Books
    1455

    Books

    Johannes Gutenberg printed the first of his Bibles using movable type.
  • Newspapers

    Newspapers

    Ben Harris printed Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper in the English colonies.
  • Recording

    Recording

    Thomas Edison introduced the phonograph, which could record and play back sound.
  • Motion Pictures/ Cinema

    Motion Pictures/ Cinema

    The first commerical exhibition of motion pictures was given in New York City using 10 Kinetoscopes.
  • Radio

    Radio

    Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first message by radio wave.
  • First Commercial Radio Broadcast

    First Commercial Radio Broadcast

    Radio station KDKA in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania produced the first commercially recognized radio broadcast.
  • Time magazine

    Time magazine

    Briton Hadden and Henry Luce created the first weekly magazine in the United States.
  • Television

    Television

    Philo Farnsworth is credited with inventing the current system of television.
  • First Satellite

    First Satellite

    Soviet Russia launched Sputnik 1; the first artificial satellite to be put in orbit. Satellites are used for a number of things including communication, military, weather, and research.
  • First Laptop

    First Laptop

    Adam Osborne developed the Osborne 1 which was considered to be the first actually portable laptop (it still weighed 24 pounds though).
  • Web

    Web

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
  • Smartphones

    Smartphones

    IBM Simon was the first "smartphone" invented. It had a touchscreen and some familiar features like calendar and game functions.