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Period: 3000 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Age
. Egyptians perfect hieroglyphics
. Semites devise the alphabet;
. Egyptian papyrus, early form of paper
. Printing by means of separate, movable characters in China
. Johannes Gutenberg introduces moveable type printing press in Germany
. William Caxton produces a book in England with the first printed advertisement
.Printing books and pamphlets increase
.First newspapers in Europe -This is an era of print media -
Period: to
Industrial Age
. William McGuffey begins writing reading textbooks
.First telegraph line set by Samuel Morse
. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin becomes the first blockbuster in U.S. book publishing
. James Buchanan’s Inauguration, first photographed
. First transatlantic cable
. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is reported by telegraph and print
. Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph -Rise of Industrial age. -
Period: to
Electronic Age
. Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio
. Joseph Maxwell introduces electrical microphones
. First TV transmission by Philo Farnsworth
. Telstar I satellite telephone and TV signals
. Audiotape is developed in Germany
. Community antenna television system, early cable
. Digital technology, early Internet technology -Rise of technology devices for broadcast and communication -
Period: to
Digital Age
Email is developed
Microprocessor is developed
Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, “founding fathers” of the Internet
VCRs are introduced
HBO is uplinked to satellite
Hypertext links to Web
First online newspaper [Columbus Dispatch]
Rise of talk radio
Direct Broadcast Satellite service is launched
Microsoft Internet Explorer debut
Rise of cell phone use and cellular technology
iPod and MP3 format compressed digital files debut
Instant message services -Modern Technology from 1700-Present Time