Media+Timeline

Timeline of Media in the World

1655 – The word “advertising” is introduced 1834 – Louis Braille creates Braille to help blind people read 1856 – Machine folds paper for books and newspapers 1856- First full page ad is ran in a newspaper, the //New York Ledger// 1860 – 260 magazines are published in the United States 1861- First chemicals are used to produce color photography 1870 – More than 5,000 newspapers are published in the United States 1873 – Illustrated daily newspaper is created in New York City 1880 - The United States has 50,000 telephones 1888 - //National Geographic// is created 1900 – The United States had 2,150 daily newspapers and 14,717 weeklies total newspaper circulation in the US passed 15 million a day 1904 – Panchromatic film- sensitive to all visible colors answering machine 1906 – yellow pages created in Michigan to advertise businesses 1907 – movies can do slow motion 1909 – first broadcast talk. The topic was women’s suffrage 1910 - daily newspapers in US reach its peak at 2,200 1912 – Universal Pictures Corporation is formed 1914 – First transcontinental phone call 1919 – Shortwave radio invented 1922 – 100,000 radio sets manufactured in the United States BBC goes on air 1923 – half a million radios sold in United States 1926 – NBC formed 1930 – First TV commercial- broadcast by Charles Jenkins 1937 – CBS is formed 1940 – Color TV 1949 – Network TV established in the United States 1951 – Color TV goes on sale 1967 – // Rolling Stone //Magazine 1971 – Email is invented 1973 – Big screen TV’s 1981 – Laptops 1982 – Caller ID 1985 – Phones are put into cars 1996 – DVD’s 2001 – iPod’s 2002 – WiFi 2003 – Myspace.com 2004 – Facebook.com 2010 – 3D TV’s

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