timeline

By bobright667
  • Invention of the printing press
    1440

    Invention of the printing press

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was used up until the 20th century.
  • Motion pictures & Cinema

    Motion pictures & Cinema

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

    The first laptop

    Adam Osborne developed the Osborne 1 which was considered to be the first actually portable laptop
  • The first smartphone

    The first smartphone

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