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The first electronic message service
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Providing fast communication coast to coast
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Christopher Latham developed the first practical type writer
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Alexander Graham Bell invention including what was later called "Audio Theatre" plays and readings performed over the telephone.
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used to record and playback sound
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invents the first microphone
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issued a patent for the electric incandescent light bulb; wires part of New York with DC current to power street lights and lights in wealthy homes
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invents the flat record player
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invents magnetic wire sound recording
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use (piano) music with a motion picture program for the first time at a screening at the Grand Café in Paris
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perfects first system of mass duplication of pre-recorded flat disks.
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"The Electric Theater" in Los Angel was open
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John Ambrose Fleming develops the first vacuum tube called a "Valve."
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Is granted a patent for the first triod vacuum tube ehich he calls the "Audion"
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begin experimental "wireless" voice and music broadcasts from San Jose, California using experimental radio station
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Finally introduces a disk player
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produce the first "feature-length" film called "The Squaw Man"
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introduces the first consumer charge card.
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Hensley got the idea for the loudspeaker when he thought about what would happen if he made a telephone receiver really big.
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a sound system to synchronize music and sound effects with a motion picture
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a music track for the Warner Brothers film "Don Juan" containing music composed by William Axt.
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invents mechanical television which he calls a "Televisor",
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the first radio network.
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transmits the first "electric television" picture at the size of a postage stamp, an inch and a half square in his San Francisco Laboratory.
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Victor label as well as Columbia and other manufacturers to standardize on 78.26 rpm as the speed of all phonograph records.
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publishes its first music chart of performed songs.
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Logie Baird demonstrates his system of mechanical television, transmitting its signal from England to the United States over the Atlantic ocean.
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ceases the manufacturing of sound recordings.
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"Don Lee" chain of radio stations joins the CBS radio network
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TV pictures, German scientist Fritz Schroeter applies for a patent on interlaced scanning.
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work on a 33 1/3 rpm record system, but the system fails because the material does not stand up to repeated plays.
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"binaural" phonograph system is created by Bell laboratories
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"The Lone Ranger" radio series debuts on radio station WXYZ in Detroit. Director Jim Jewell
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Publishes its first chart of top- selling records
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Finally gave in to market pressures and began producing 33 1/3 microgroove
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the first television remote control (it had a cable.)
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"Hank McCune Hall" used laugh tracks from other shows on its soundtrack since it was filmed without a studio audience, and the era of "canned laughter"
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Conpany to "sing-over" pre-recorded backgrounds
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designed by network art director William Golden.
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the CBS Television Network, filmed with three cameras simultaneously in front of a "live" audience
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is a reality via telephone company coaxial cables.
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TV broadcast was an episode of NBC's "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"
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adopt RCA's "New Orthophonic" recording characteristic as its standard to define equalization crossover points and rolloff characteristics for records
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reel-toreel tape is offered for sale.
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To get rid of extre tukey
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Format called MONITOR
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symbol of compatible "Living Color"
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Using transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
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broadcasting begins and FM slowly starts to gain respect.
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the first computer mouse (made of wood.)
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developed for automobile use by Lear
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Introduces the picturephone at the worlds' fair
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Requires cable Tv systems with more than 3500 subcribers
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records "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- the first disco record on US radio
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the first electronic computer arcade game.
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instead of an Image Orthicon or Plumbicon camera tube
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a motion picture camera stabilizer mount, worn by the cameraman himself, first used in the movie "Rocky."
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CDs have overtaken LP sales in the U.S.
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sold it's one-billionth song on this date, proving that digital music can be accepted by the public when distributed across a network in a virtual form, as opposed to inscribed only in discrete tangible media.