Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter.
Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.
Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone
Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph.
Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.
United States starts the Pony Express for mail delivery.Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen.
American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.
Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books.
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion.
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again.
George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera.
Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland - the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.