Printing Press Gutenberg and Caxton, movable type printing
The first English daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, begins publication.
England's Parliament formally concedes the right of journalists to cover its proceedings
The World Turn'd Upside Down.” The American Colonies declare their independence fromGreat Britain
Franklin discovers electricity
The First Amendment to the U.S.
Charles Babbage designs the Difference Engine
LADY BYRON (first computer program)
Babbage designs Analytical Machine, often considered to be the first general-purpose computer.
Charles Babbage conceives the first automatic digital computer, the Analytical Engine
Samuel Morse debuts the telegraph
Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype, the first practical form of photographicreproduction.
Daguerreotype: photographs produced using a paper negative
Magazines begin publishing woodcuts and lithographs produced from daguerreotypes.
William Henry Fox Talbot patents the Calotype,
Ada Byron, a mathematician and daughter of the famed poet, translates an article on Babbage'sAnalytical Engine, and at Babbage's request
Six U.S. newspapers pool their resources to establish The Associated Press. The partnership isdesigned to help defray the huge expense of sending news stories via telegraph
Sir David Brewster exhibits the Stereoscope at the Crystal Palace in London. Queen Victoria isamused. Over the next 70 years, the three-dimensional picture viewer (think View-Master) will becomeas ubiquitous in households as television is today.
Roger Fenton photographs the Crimean War, but the pictures remain unseen by the generalpublic because newspapers cannot yet publish photos.
Europe and North America are briefly linked by a transatlantic telegraph cable; by 1866, thesystem is up to stay. News that once took months to travel now takes seconds
Transatlantic cable laid
CRAY: Builds the CDC 1604 for Control Data Corporation. The first fully transistorized supercomputer.
Second generation computer introduced by IBM. Used transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
Remington Manual Typewriter
The Associated Press leases its own telegraph line
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call
Inventors in the U.S. and Germany debut the dynamic microphone.
about a light? Edison invents the incandescent light bulb.
While tabulating the 1880 U.S. census, statistician Herman Hollerith invents anelectromechanical machine that reads holes in perforated cards
Development of the halftone process makes it possible to reproduce photographs in booksand newspapers
Burroughs: First commercially successful adding machine.
Film: Sequential photographs with sprockets manually pulled through a projector
Edison and William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson debut the Kinetograph
Eastman introduces the Brownie, a one-dollar camera designed for children.
Guglielmo Marconi perfects a wireless radio system that transmits Morse code over theAtlantic Ocean.
Georges Méliès releases Le Voyage dans la Lune
Edwin Porter releases The Great Train Robbery, which will popularize the Nickelodeon.
Victor Talking Machine Company introduces the Victrola. RCA will buy the company
David Sarnoff, a Marconi wireless operator in New York, receives the SOS from the sinkingTitanic.
The teletype is introduced. Journalism is no longer predicated on the knowledge of MorseCode.
Griffith releases The Birth of a Nation, the first modern film. Moving camera shots andclose-ups are just two of the film's many innovations.
Robert Wiene releases The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The sets are designed by GermanExpressionist artists.
Commercial radio: KDKA Pittsburgh
Electronically recorded sound discsAT&T’s Bell labs allow recording of whole symphonies
Electronically recorded sound discsAT&T’s Bell labs allow recording of whole symphonies
Conrad ZuseFirst calculator. First computer
Germany begins airing regular public TV broadcasts.
"Turing’s Machine" defined as capable of computing any calculable function
Orson Welles scares the daylights out of America. His radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' TheWar of the Worlds realistically simulates news coverage of an invasion by hostile Martians
First colour T.V.broadcast.
The first U.S. coast-to-coast television broadcast takes place as President Harry S. Trumanaddresses the opening of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.
Zuse – Z3: First machine to work on a binary system rather than decimal system.
Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain develop the transistor. More reliable and cheaper to run than vacuum tubes.
IBM 701: First electronic stored computer that used vacuum tubes, RAM, punch cards and was the size of a piano.
Removable disksPaul Baran sees a communications network different than the traditional point to point links. He envisioned a "fishnet network".
Phillips first compact audio cassette.
"Understanding Media" postulates the global village.
HE inventend the Xanadu hypertext project
Built and Developed of the first hypertext editing system
Fourth generation computer by IBM uses chips to reduce size and cost.
Intel 4004 chip developed by Hoff. Computers can now be owned by individuals.
Phillips laserdisc playback only deckPONG, first commercial video game
Kahn &Cerf present ideas for structure of Internet
Intel 8080 microprocessor which was to be used in many PC’s.
Email provided to 100 researchers
First commercially available cell phone
VisiCalc: the first spreadsheetWordstar: word processing package is released.
Word Processing MachineSingle purpose machine with limited storage on magnetic material.
Apollo Computer unveiled the first work station
First PC clone
Apple Computers introduces the Macintosh with the first mouse driven GUI (Graphical User Interface).
Desktop publishingAldus PageMaker for the Macintosh
SONY Betamax removed from consumer shelves
First digital audio tape players
3D Graphics: 3D graphical supercomputersPixar's "Tin Toy": the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award,
Handwriting recognition is introduced by grid with a touch sensitive pad on a lap top computers.
National Science Foundation lifts ban on commerce on the Internet.
National Science Foundation lifts ban on commerce on the Internet.
World Wide Web
Internet
Saehan-Eiger Labs releases the MPMan F10/F20, the first portable MP3 player.
Internet goes interactive; shopping, banking, live concerts, radio broadcasting, spamming
Internet goes interactive; shopping, banking, live concerts, radio broadcasting, spamming
Private ISP becomes big businessNetscape goes public
Private ISP becomes big businessNetscape goes public
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is officially introduced. The format allows instantsyndication o
Napster debuts, allowing users to download (and share) their favorite MP3s.
Postmodern humans project images on the walls of their pyramids.
The revolution will be downloaded: Apple introduces iTunes (January) and the iPod
