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the very first postal service-for government used in china
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the first issue of which having been published on the 1st of January, 1660, had so far been considered to be the world's oldest daily paper. The new discovery is the 'Einkommende Zeitungen', published since the 1st of July, 1650. Both papers were published by the Leipzig printer Timotheus Ritzsch.
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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone).
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Early attempts to design a consumer sound or music playing gadget began in 1877 when Thomas Edison invented his tin-foil phonograph. The word "phonograph" was Edison's trade name for his device, which played recorded sounds from round cylinders. The sound quality on the phonograph was bad and each recording lasted for one only play.
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On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. The first mobile phone call was made 40 years today, on April 3, 1973, by Motorola employee Martin Cooper.