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1712-1860

1861-1900

1901-1925

1926-1950

1951-1975

1976-1990

1991-2000

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     1861-1900

1861 end of Pony Express

1861 first colour photography

1862 drawing is sent over a wire by Caselli

1862 first paper money in USA

     1865

1865 Atlantic cable links US and Europe

1865 Nokia established as pulp and paper mill

1866 Holt Rinehart Winston founded

1868 writing machine first called a 'Type-Writer'

1869 establishment of N W Ayer, first US ad agency

1869 UK private telegraph companies nationalised

1869 transcontinental railway completed in US

1869 Suez Canal

     1870

1870 stock ticker used by Wall Street

1870 first British postcard devised by Anthony Trollope

1871 Bates establishes first ad agency offering "creative services"

1871 Hoe perfects continuous roll press

1871 first newspaper printing of pictures (using halftone)

1872 simultaneous transmission from both ends of a telegraph wire

1872 US$1 million budget for advertising Lydia Pinkham's Pink Pills

1872 Overland Telegraph Line links Melbourne to Darwin, with connection to Europe

1873 illustrated daily newspaper appears in New York

1873 Maxwell publishes theory of radio waves

1873 Dewey develops Dewey Decimal System for Amherst College Library

1873 Remington starts manufacturing Sholes' typewriters

1873 typewriters get the QWERTY pseudo-scientific keyboard

1874 Universal Postal Union formed

     1875

1875 mimeograph invented by Edison

1875 UK Trade Marks Registration Act establishes Trade Marks Registry

1876 Bell invents telephone

1877 Charles Cros and Thomas Edison invent phonograph

1877 first commercial telephone is introduced

1878 Edweard Muybridge photographs horse in motion

1878 Scripps newspaper group founded

1878 cathode ray tube invented by Crookes

1878 microphone invented

1878 telephone directories are issued

1878 full page newspaper ads

1878 dry-plate photography

1879 Benday process assists newspaper illustration

1879 first telephone service in Australia connects Melbourne and South Melbourne offices of Robinson Brothers

1879 Sydney Daily Telegraph appears

1879 Dahl's 'sulfate' method for practical manufacture of paper from wood pulp

1879 Frege proposes notational system for mechanical reasoning

     1880

1880 first photos in newspapers using halftones

1880 Edison and Swan invent electric light

1880 first parcel post

1880 first Australian telphone exchange opened in Melbourne

1882 first wirephotos

1882 first national US ad (by P&G for Ivory soap)

1888 Burroughs patents adding machine

1883 Stillwell invents brown paper bag

1884 early version of television technology - Nipkow scanning disk

1884 long distance telephone calls

1884 electric tabulator

1884 Waterman's fountain pen

     1885

1885 AT&T Formed

1885 cylinder-based dictating machines

1885 coated photo printing paper made by Eastman

1886 Mergenthaler's linotype machine

1886 Sears Roebuck, forerunner of Amazon.com, starts mail-order business

1886 first Berne Copyright Convention

1886 Coca-Cola syrup invented

1886 Hollerith forms Tabulating Machine Company

1887 celluloid film

1887 US Interstate Commerce Act

1887 Berliner invents phonographic disk

1887 Comptometer multi-function adding machine is manufactured

1888 Kodak box camera

1888 Hertz proves existence of radio waves

1888 coin-operated public telephone

1889 Hollerith's punch card machine used in US census

1889 automatic telephone exchange

     1890

1890 AB Dick markets mimeograph

1890 zipper

1890 rotogravure press

1891 telephoto lens is attached to the camera

1891 first telephone link between London & Paris

1892 Edison and Dickson invent peep-show Kinetoscope

1892 4-colour rotary press

1892 portable typewriters

1893 Coca-Cola trademark registered

1894 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy

     1895

1895 Lumière Bros invent Cinématograph

1895 Friese-Greene invents phototypesetting

1895 Kellogg's Corn Flakes

1895 first Times Atlas of the World

1896 first edition of Daily Mail

1896 Henry Ford builds Quadricycle

1896 Underwood model permits typists to see what they are typing

1896 X-ray photography invented

1896 first US cinema opens

1897 Braun invents cathode-ray tube

1897 General Electric creates corporate publicity department

1898 photographs taken by artificial light

1898 New York State passes law against misleading advertising

1899 loudspeaker is invented

1899 magnetic sound recording

1899 American Marconi Company (forerunner of RCA)

1899 Burroughs Adding Machine Company

1899 Thorsten Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class

     1900

1900 Kodak Brownie

1900 est. 1.4 million telephones, 8 000 registered automobiles and 24 million electric light bulbs in US

1900 'television' coined in France

1900 price of 'chemical' wood pulp reaches US$36 per tonne, down from US$344 per tonne in 1866






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