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Leone Alberti Writes the book that systematizes the rules of drawing three-dimensional scenes on two-dimensional planes.
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Prehistoric humans paint images on the walls of their caves 8including a narrative composition).
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The first daily newspaper begins publication.
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The right of jornalists to cover the procedings is allowed.
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Carlkes Babbabge conce3ives the first automtic digital computer, the analytical engtine. A working model is not built until 1991.
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Samujel Morse debuts the telegraph. The invention revolutionizes the trasmisson of information.
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Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype, the first practical form of photographic reporoduction.
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The birst magazines begin being published and lithopgraphs produced from deguerrotypes.
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Europe and North America are briefly linked by a transatlantic telegraph cable.
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the associated press leases its own telegraphb line (from New York to Washington DC).
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Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call. izza is still another 75 years away.
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Thomas Alva Edison invents the phonograp. He also cuts the first recording a soulful rendition of "mary had a little lamb" "Maria tiene un corderito"
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Inventors in the US and Germany introduces the Dynanmic microphone
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Thomas Alva Edison invents the incandescentlight bulb.
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Herman Hollerith invents an electromechanical machine that reades perforated cards. He founds the "Tabulating Machine company" that lagter becomes the International bisness Machine Corporation.
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Development of the halftone processmakes it possible to reproduce photographs in books and newspapers.
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George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera and roll film.
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Dickson demonstrates the kinetophonograph, to Edison. This device synchronizes sound from a phonograph to images from a kinetoscope. Never succesfully developed, synchronized soud will nhot make its debut for another 37 years.
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Luis and Auguste Lumiere make "la sortie des ouyriers de Luisine Lumiere considered the first motion picuture. Also, during this time, George Melies invents stop motion animation.
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Edison photographer William Paley fimls the Spanish-American War in Cuba
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Stop/motion animatiionis introuduced by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton.
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Eastman introduces the Brownie, a one/dollar camera designed for children.
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Guglielmo Marconi perfects a wireless radio system.
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Georges Melies releases the film bgesides stop motion, he also pioneers the use of slipt screens .
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Edwin Porter releases "the Great Train Robbery, which will popularize the Nickelodeon.
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the fax machine was invented by German Scientist Arthur Korn
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David Sarnoff, a Marconi wireless operator in New York receives the SOS from the sinking Titanic. He stays at his post for three days, receiving and passing on news of the disaster.
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the teletype is introuduced. Jornalism is no longer predicted on the knowledge of Morse Code.
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Telephone service is established between London and New York. Bell telephone laboratories tests wireless TV broadcasts.
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Superman makes his debut
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Dorothy Kunhardt's PAT THE BUNNY is published. A simple book emplying multimedia and interactivity.
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Great leapsforward are made in communications and computer technolgies. Disney uses animation to illustrate complex subjects in technical training films.
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Edwin Laond debust the Polaroid camera
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RCA counters with the 45 RPM record (also known as single)
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Computertechnology is used in flight simulators; arguably the first application of computer interactivity.
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IBM introduces the work processor
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Rock bands beging to add visual effects to their performances
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Technology include laptop computers, small soilid-state lasers (wich lead to compact discs), cordless power tools, solar power cells, liquid crystals and tang. The best year of the history.
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The Magnavox Odissey, the first home video game ¿sytem is released.
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Bill gates and Paul Allen adapt BASIC to run on the Altair 8800 and sell the interpreter to MITS. The new company has a name: Micro-soft.
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IBM releases its first PC
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On January 1st. Internet is created when a stanndard networking protocol (TPC/IP) is adopted by all ARPANET users.
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The compact disc is introduced
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Brithis Physicist Tim Berners-Lee propoeses a global hypertext system, The World Wide Web. During the next few yearsm he will develop the standards for URL, HTML and HTTP.
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The digital audio compression format MP3is invented at hte Fraunhofer Institute; a German research lab.
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The internet-s first radio station begins broadcasting using Mbone (IP multicast backbone) technology.
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Fifty million channles, DVD vidceo is introduced, Affordable digital cameras.
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Napster debuts, allowing users to download (and share) their favorite MP3
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Realy simple syndication (is officially introduced. the format allows instant syndication of new and other content and will pave the way for the rapid rise of blogs and podcasts,
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Apple introduces itunes and the iPod (October)
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The first US coast-to coast television brtoacast takes place as president Harry S. Truman adresses the opening of the Japanese Peace Traty Conference in San Francisco.
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Multimedia designers perform an essentian task when they merge different types of media for presentation to the public. though the history of multimedia development is a short one, the nature of multimedfia looks long and bright. We certainly agree with this statement.
