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Mass Media Timeline
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Mass Media Timeline
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Invention of the typographer (type writer)
1829
The Typographer, patented by William Austin Burt in 1829, was America's first typewriter.
The reason that he built the machine was to speed up his work in official correspondence as a government surveyor.
Moveable Clay type printing in China
1401
Moveable clay type - which is basically like a type writer - was created in china but was too expensive compared to other forms. When it reached europe, it revolutionized the idea of communication.
Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded to be the first U.S patent for creating the telephone.
Thomas A. Watson, one of Bell's assistants, was trying to reactivate a telegraph transmitter. Hearing the sound, Bell believed that he could solve the problem of sending a human voice over a wire. He figured out how to transmit a simple current first,
1876
First colored movie
1908
The first commercially produced film in natural color was A Visit to the Seaside. It was a British short film that used Kinemacolor process to capture a series of shots of the Brighton Southern England seafront.
Email was developed
Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing the modern email system that we know today. Once he created the email system, it began to grow rapidly.
1972
DVDs replaced VCR
1997
Corperations like Sony, Philips, and Panasonic created DVDs They were found to be more compact, clear, and didn't require to be rewinded.
The DVD held up to 17.08 GB of storage and could be used for more than just films. It was widely used for other softwares.
Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard sophomore, launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. after the first day it took off and that was just the beginning.