The History of Media

By egoodzey
  • Jan 1, 1434

    Jan Van Eyck finishes painting “The Arnolfini Portrait”

  • Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

  • Jan 1, 1455

    printing press invented by Johannes Gutenburg

  • The saying “seeing is believing ” is first expressed

  • Period: to

    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  • US census identifies the four most numerous ethnic groups

  • Thomas Young links color to the human eye

  • German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz is born

  • London Zoo at Regent’s Park is established

  • Sir Charles Wheatstone presents a paper to the Royal Society of London detailing his views on binocular vision

  • London Zoo opens to the public

  • Helmholtz invents the ophthalmoscope

  • James Maxwell gives the electromagnetic spectrum its name and invented color photography

  • Helmholtz publishes a handbook on optics, which becomes the Young-Helmholtz theory

  • Guilaume Duchenne first describes the symptoms of muscular dystrophy

  • The zoopraxiscope was invented

  • Edouard Manet completes “A Bar at the Folies Bergere”

  • Period: to

    Art Nouveau in France

  • Edison's "Fred Ott's Sneeze"

  • Kinetoscope was invented

  • Period: to

    Lumiere Brothers make "Workera Leaving Factory"

  • Period: to

    Suzanne Langer

  • Georges Melies' "Voyage to the Moon" is released

  • Arthur Walbridge North’s book, Camp and Camino in Lower California, is thought to be where the words came from in “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”.

  • Max Wertheimer received inspiration for his gestalt theory of observation

  • 2 former students of Ferdinand de Saussure published his lectures from their notes

  • Edward Hopper paints “Soir Bleu”

  • Danish gestalt Edgar Rubin experimented with figure and ground patterns

  • the first stop sign was made in Michigan

  • Period: to

    Bauhaus in Germany

  • Period: to

    Saul Bass

  • inkblot test developed by Hermann Rorschach

  • journalist/media critic Walter Lippmann published Public Opinion

  • Ruth Snyder is the first woman executed in the US since 1899

  • The transition to sound in movies

  • Oscar Reutersvard first created the impossible triangle

  • Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" is released

  • The Hindenburg explodes

  • Aldous Huxley’s book, The Art of Seeing, was released

  • Holography is introduced

  • Period: to

    Roger Penrose made the Penrose triangle popular

  • design of the stop sign was changed to what we have today

  • Helvetica was invented

  • the Young-Helmholtz theory becomes a fact after it is experimentally proven

  • Saul Bass made the shower murder scene in the movie "Psycho"

  • M.C. Escher completes his painting, “Waterfall”

  • Julian Hochberg found that eyes of his viewers were constantly in motion when viewing an image

  • Edward Land detailed color constancy in his retinex theory

  • Danish architect Jorn Utzon completes the spherical rooflines and sail-like vaults of the Sydney Opera House

  • Viking Orbiter 1 took pictures of the Cydonia region of Mars to find possible landing sites for Viking Lander 2

  • The first x-ray was tested on a human

  • The classic sci-fi movie Blade Runner is released

  • Peter Gabriel’s music video “Sledgehammer” is a number one hit in several countries

  • American animator Bill Plympton was nominated for an Academy Award for his short cartoon, Your Face

  • British Academy Award-winning short filmmaker Nick Park makes Creature Comforts

  • it was discovered that readers notice the largest picture first then headlines then captions

  • Jeff Jacobson publishes his book of rare images, My Fellow Americans

  • Jean-Marie Chauvet discovered the oldest known cave etchings and paintings

  • Reverend Jerry Falwell accuses children’s TV character Tinky Winky of being gay

  • Benetton’s “We, on Death Row” 96-page booklet was released in Talk magazine

  • Terrorist attacks on US buildings including the Twin Towers

  • US invasion of Afghanistan

  • Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah

  • Capture of Saddam Hussein

  • Michael Jackson is acquitted of sexual child abuse

  • Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans

  • TV producers alone earned almost 1 billion dollars from advertising placemets

  • Google purchases YouTube

  • PSA’s animal cruelty commercial began airing and was largely successful

  • Virginia Tech student kills 32 students

  • The global economic meltdown begins

  • Barack Obama is sworn in to office

  • Disney makes their first three-dimensional, animated movie Up

  • The space shuttle Atlantis is seen in flight in a photo of the sun

  • Norwegian animation studio BUG created the first 3-D commercial

  • 150 million 3-D glasses were handed out to view 3-D commercials during the Super Bowl

  • The last silent film "The Artist" is released