1712-1860

1714 first typewriter patented by Henry Mill in England

1719 Reaumur proposes using wood to make paper

1720 South Sea Bubble bursts

1727 The Gentleman's Magazine, first modern magazine

     1740

1741 first magazine in America is published - American Magazine

1742 Ben Franklin's General Magazine prints first American magazine ads

     1750

1755 Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language

1757 Whatman invents wove paper

     1760

1764 Fournier develops point system to measure type sizes

1765 earlest known children's pop-up book

1768 first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica

1768 first voyage of Cook's Endeavour

     1770

1770 gum eraser

1772 first patent issued in England for coloured ink

1774 paper whitener

     1780

1784 first edition of The Times

1786 Playfair's Commercial & Political Atlas

1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man

     1790

1791 establishment of the Observer

1792 Chappe's mechanical semaphore in France

1792 New York Stock Exchange established

1792 postal money orders in Britain

1794 Metric system in France

1798 Malthus' first Essay on Population

1798 Senefelder invents lithography

1799 paper-making machine invented in France by Robert

     1800

1801 Jacquard invents punch-card control for looms

1803 Sydney Gazette & NSW Advertiser - first newspaper in Australia

1806 carbon paper

1807 camera lucida

     1810

1811 Luddites have fun in Nottingham

1813 can opener invented

1814 The Times printed by steam-powered rotary press

1815 patent for lined notepaper

1817 Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy & Taxation

1817 Say's Catechism of Political Economy

     1820

1820 first manufactured calculating machine, de Colmar's Arithometer

1823 Babbage builds section of calculating machine

1827 Niépce makes first true photograph

1827 first microphone constructed by Wheatstone

1829 first US patent for typewriter

1829 Wheatstone uses punched paper tape to store data

     1830

1830 number of ads in British newspapers rises to 877,972 pa

1830 newspaper Stamp Tax abolished in Australia

1832 Havas news agency established

1833 experimental 1 kilometre-long electric telegraph in Germany

1834 Babbage conceives Analytical Engine

1836 General Register Office in the UK

1837 Wheatstone and Cooke patent electric telegraph

1837 Morse exhibits electric telegraph in US

1837 world's largest newspaper, New York Sun, has 30,000 circulation

1837 Pitman's book on shorthand

1838 Daguerre-Niépce method begins photographic revolution

1839 Fox Talbot produces photographs from negatives

1839 electrotyping (duplicating of printing plates) invented by Jacobi

1839 electricity used to run printing press

     1840

1840 first postage stamps sold in Britain

1841 Volney Palmer, first media broker

1841 first type-composing machine used in London

1842 Literary Copyright Act in UK

1842 Illustrated London News appears

1842 Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) appears

1842 first Christmas card

1843 Economist founded

1843 Macmillan founded

1843 photographic enlarger

1843 Ada Lovelace publishes Notes about computing

1843 first public telegraph line, from Paddington to Slough

1844 Pearson media group founded as UK civil engineering contractor

1844 Morse's telegraph connects Washington and Baltimore

1845 cable laid across English Channel

1845 typewriter ribbon

1846 double cylinder rotary press produces 8 000 sheets per hour

1846 Melbourne Argus appears

1846 Moreton Bay (Brisbane) Courier

1847 Levi Strauss invents denim jeans

1847 Bakewell develops "copying telegraph"

1848 Mill's Principles of Political Economy

1848 Marx's Das Kapital

1848 first WH Smith railway bookstall

1849 photographic slide

1849 Howe patents safety-pin

     1850

1850 first machine-made paper bag

1850 Mannheim designs logarithmic slide rule

1850 number of magazines published in US reaches 685

1851 first edition of New York Times

1851 Archer invents wet-plate photography

1851 patent for Singer sewing machine

1851 Reuters established

1853 envelopes made by paper folding machine

1853 establishment of Compagnie Générale des Eaux, precursor of Vivendi

1854 telegraph used in Crimean War

1854 Wheatstone invents Playfair cipher

1854 Boole's Laws of Thought

1854 first Australian telegraph line (Melbourne to Williamstown)

1854 Carte-de-visite process simplifies photography

1855 Hughes' printing telegraph

1855 pre-payment of letters made compulsory in US

1855 Maury's The Physical Geography of the Sea

1855 registered letters enter service in US

1856 Poitevan develops photolithography

1856 blotting paper replaces sand boxes

1856 machine-folding of newspapers

1856 Symes buy The Age

1858 failure of first transatlantic telegraph service

1858 eraser fitted to end of pencil

1858 first aerial photograph

1858 Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney linked by telegraph

1859 development of wide-angle camera lens

1859 cable across Bass Strait

1859 Darwin's The Origin of Species

1859 Mill's On Liberty

1859 Great Moral History of Port Curtis, Australia's first comic

     1860

1860 Sholes builds functional typewriter





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