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Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398-1468) pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters called movable type.
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Invented in 1519 where scenes were drawn with pen and ink on interior walls of the camera or room. First drawing of Camera Obscura was made by Leonardo da Vinci.
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The first American colour plate book, William Birch's The City of Philadelphia in the Year 1800, was printed from engraved copper plates, which were then coloured by hand.
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First photograph was produced in 1826 by John Niepce.
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Louis Daguerre invents a practical method of taking pin-sharp photographs called Daguerreotypes.
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Christopher Latham Sholes invents the modern typewriter and QWERTY keyboard. The first commercially viable typewriter by Remington, produced in 1873
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, though the true ownership of the invention remains controversial even today.
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The phonograph is a device, invented in 1877, for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. In its later forms, it is also called a gramophone, or, since the 1940s, a record player, or, most recently, a turntable.
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Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen re-discovers the principle of magnetic recording.
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Kodak Brownie makes photography cheaper and simpler. A commercial Camera that came with a film.
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Earliest comic dated back in the Platinum Age(1897-1932); Pre-Golden Age(1933-1938); Golden Age(1938-1945); Atom Age(1946-1956); Silver Age(1959-1969); Bronze Age(1970-1979); Modern Age(1980-present)
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U.S. Military uses posters as the
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The Acme 35mm motion picture projector was the first mass produced for use in schools.
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Felix the Cat is broadcast by RCA corporation.
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Irving Stapsy joined the Buhl company after WWII, his first product in the new audio-visual line was the overhead projector.
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The jukebox successfully became integral to a spate of teen entertainment centers opening around the country to keep adolescents off the streets.
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With the invention of the 45 rpm record player in 1949 music became widely available for home use and purchase.
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After many years of struggle, they produced the UNIVAC I computer, which was delivered to its first customer (the U.S. Census Bureau) in 1951.
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First Polaroid/Land Camera invented in 1952. Images developed as you watched the film sheet being printed.
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The first portable computer was created in April 1981 by a company called Osborne, led by a journalist turned entrepreneur named Adam Osborne.