-
the first electronic message service
-
-
Edison invented the cylinder phonograph on accident when he is working on the telephone and telegraph.
-
Emile Berliner invents the first microphone and sells the rights to Bell Telephone
-
Emile Berliner invents the flat record player ("gramophone") using acoustic horn and licenses technology to record companies who make "70-rpm" disks.
-
Louis Glass invents the modern jukebox and installs it at the "Palais Royal" saloon in San Francisco.
-
The International copyright agreement is adopted between major countries.
-
The first "million-seller" song hit was "After The Ball" by Charles K. Harris, who was both its composer and publisher.
-
The Lumiere Brothers use piano with a motion picture program for the first time at a Dec. 28th
-screening at the Grand Café in Paris -
An orchestra is used with silent motion pictures for the first time in London.
-
"The Electric Theater" in Los Angeles is opened by Thomas L. Tally: the first Nickelodeon, a multimedia movie palace, that spawned imitators nationwide;
-
British scientist John Ambrose Fleming develops the first vacuum tube called a "Valve."
-
Mary Pickford becomes the first American "Motion Picture Star" in silent films.
-
Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky produce the first "feature-length" film called "The Squaw Man"
-
First transcontinental telephone call from New York to San Francisco.
-
Western Union introduces the first consumer charge card.
-
AT&T engineer C. G. Hensley got the idea for the loudspeaker when he thought about what would happen if he made a telephone receiver really big.
-
Morning radio broadcasting begins on KDKA, Philadelphia.
-
Western Union introduces teletypewriters, joining branches and individual companies.
-
Electrical records replace acoustic discs, via a process developed by Western Electric.
-
The NBC Pacific Coast "Orange network" debuts
-
"Movie-Tone News" talking theatrical newsreels debut in New York City.
-
Philo Farnsworth transmits the first "electric television" picture (about as big as a postage stamp) in San Fransisco.
-
CBS - the "Columbia Broadcasting System" begins radio broadcasting
-
First person to be seen on television. Comedian. Became known as "Mr. Television".
-
Billboard magazine publishes its first music chart of performed songs.
-
The Edison Co. ceases the manufacturing of sound recordings.
-
The West Coast "Don Lee" chain of radio stations joins the CBS radio network
-
An experimental "binaural" phonograph system is created by Bell laboratories
-
The Duke Ellington recording of "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" starts the swing music dance craze.
-
The first episode of "The Lone Ranger" radio series debuts on radio station WXYZ in Detroit.
-
Richard M. Hollingshead opened the first Drive-In Movie Theater in Camden, NJ
-
Western Union introduces the first "singing telegram" service.
-
The first "3-strip Technicolor" feature-length motion picture -- "Becky Sharp"
-
The CBS radio network debuts the "CBS World News Round-Up"
-
Regular FM Radio broadcasting begins in New York City.
-
The American Broadcasting Network officially began
-
Bell Laboratories assembles the world's first transistor
-
The Audio Engineering Society (The AES) is formed
-
The first cable TV systems appear called Community Antenna Television systems
-
CBS television broadcast the first color TV program to five cities
-
The "CBS Eye" network logo debuts. Designed by network art director William Golden
-
The first episode of "I Love Lucy" aired on the CBS Television Network
-
The First public RCA "compatible-color" TV broadcast was an episode of NBC's "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"
-
The first color television sets rolled out of the RCA Victor factory in Bloomington, Indiana
-
The First "transistor radio" went on sale in the U.S. named The Regency TR-1
-
Multitrack analog tape recording starts being used in recording studios.
-
Douglas C. Engelbart demonstrates the first computer mouse (made of wood.)
-
A T & T introduces the PicturePhone at the Worlds' Fair, but it doesn't catch on
-
The "Dolby-A" professional noise reduction system is used in some recording studios
-
The "Dolby-B" noise reduction system is introduced for consumer reel-to-reel and cassette tape recorders
-
The first Microprocessor (computer on a chip) is introduced by Intel
-
At AT&T Bell Labs, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie begin developing the UNIX "portable" operating system
-
Gloria Gaynor records "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- the first disco record on US radio
-
The first consumer effort in surround sound
-
The first ARPANET (later Internet) email program called "SNDMSG" short for "Send Message" Created by Ray Tomlinson
-
New Mexico calculator company MIPS introduces the first "micro-computer"
-
Atari of Santa Clara, CA develops "Pong" -- the first electronic computer arcade game.
-
Martin Cooper of Motorola conceived the first cellular phone system, and led the 10-year process of bringing it to market.
-
The first all solid-state video cameras are introduced using Bell Labs "CCD"
-
The MTV Music TV Cable Network debuts on the air at Midnight
-
The first IBM-brand "PC" (for "Personal Computer") is released
-
The first CD titles are released in the US
-
In November, U.S. computing student Fred Cohen created the very first computer virus -- as a research project.
-
NBC broadcasts the first television programs with stereo sound
-
Phillips introduces a digital audio tape recorder (DAT) using a digital casette
-
The "SoundScan" barcode tracking system of reporting music recording sales begin to bring accurate sales figures to record charts; Country music is now a bigger segment.
-
Personal computers outsell TV sets for the first time in the United States.
-
Junk Email begins as internet popularity increases.
-
The online auction community eBay starts out as AuctionWeb.com
-
The DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) increases capacity of digital storage of audio and video on a CD (Compact Disc) medium; can store on to 4.7 GigaBytes per side
-
The Internet Web site "ClassicThemes.com" debuts
-
First regular transmissions of HDTV (High-Definition Television) begin in major cities
-
The Mutual Broadcasting System is a victim of consolidation -- absorbed into Westwood
-
Recordable CD-R digital audio disc technology becomes part of personal computer systems.
-
Digital electronic books (E-Books) become a small part of the publishing industry, and several competing companies attempt to introduce the standards for them.
-
DVD players outsell VHS players for the first time.
-
DVD are introduced
-
Apple Computer introduces the iPod
-
The F.C.C. (U.S. Federal Communications Commision) requires all new U.S. television TV sets to include digital receivers
-
The F.C.C. approves a digital radio broadcast standard developed by iBiquity Digital Corp
-
Apple introduces Itunes
-
Youtube discovered by three men in a garage.
-
Retailers Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and Circuit City announce stopped selling VHS tapes since DVD's are now the medium of choice for most consumers
-
Western Union stopped delivering telegrams
-
Apple Computer's online music store integrated into its iTunes software and iPod hardware, 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.
-
First Iphone is introduced
-
Iphone 3G introduced
-
The Iphone 3GS is introduced
-
Iphone 4 introduced. "This changes everything...again"
-
He charted 15 hit songs from 2009-2011. He became the Teen Sensation.
-
Iphone 5 expected introduction
