1901-1925

1901 first electric typewriter, the Blickensderfer

1901 first UK cinema opens

1901 Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

1901 Gillette introduces double-edged safety razor

1901 Marconi sends radio signal across Atlantic

1901 establishment of Australian Commonwealth; 16 000 Post-Master-General staff account for 90% of federal bureaucracy

1901 22 310 telephone subscribers in Australia (79% in capital cities)

1902 US Navy installs radio telephones aboard ships

1902 photoelectric scanning used for image transfer

1902 invention of the Teddy Bear

1902 national syndication of comic strips in US begins when Hearst licenses his strips to other newspapers

1902 Trans-Pacific telephone cable connects Canada and Australia

1903 London Daily Mirror illustrates only with photographs

1904 telephone answering machine

1904 photograph transmitted by wire in Germany

1904 comic book

1904 death of Joseph Pulitzer

1904 double-sided phonograph disc

     1905

1905 The Yellow Pages

1905 juke box

1905 Australian Wireless Telegraphy Act regulates local airwaves

1906 offset press

1906 first classical music radio broadcast

1906 de Forest invents three-element vacuum tube

1906 Dunwoody and Pickard build crystal-&-cat's-whisker radio

1906 animated cartoon film

1906 Fessenden invents wireless telephony

1906 experimental sound-on-film motion picture

1906 experimental radio transmissions at Queenscliff, Victoria and Devonport, Tasmania by the Marconi Company

1907 Bell & Howell develop a film projection system

1907 Lumiere brothers invent still colour photography process

1907 electric washing machine - The Thor

1907 United Press International (UPI) founded

1907 Melbourne to Sydney telephone trunk line

1908 Ford's Model T

1908 electric iron and toaster patented

1909 radio distress signal saves 1 700 lives after ships collide

1909 first broadcast talk (on votes for women)

     1910

1910 Amalgamated Wireless Australia (AWA) formed

1910 first live opera broadcast

1911 UK and Australian Copyright Acts provide protection for author's lifetime plus 50 years

1911 American Tobacco Company controls 92% of world's tobacco business, just a bit more than Microsoft's share of the browser market in early 2001

1911 Photoplay magazine launched - first movie fan magazine and "genesis of celebrity culture"

1912 sinking of the Titanic

1912 Mises' The Theory of Money & Credit

1912 US passes law to control radio stations

1912 first neon sign

1912 first airmail

1912 first automatic telephone exchange in Australia

1913 portable phonograph

1913 est one-third of British households own a phonograph

1913 first newspaper crossword puzzle

1914 radio message is sent to an airplane

1914 35mm still camera

1914 American Audit Bureau of Circulations formed

1914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded

1914 first transcontinental telephone call in US

1914 Melbourne to Adelaide telephone trunk

     1915

1915 wireless radio service connects US and Japan

1915 radio-telephone carries speech across Atlantic

1915 Birth of a Nation

1915 electric loudspeaker

1916 Sarnoff envisages radio as "a household utility"

1916 cameras get optical rangefinders

1916 radios get tuners

1917 photocomposition begins

1917 Wente's condenser microphone

1917 Capek uses term "robot" in Opilek

1918 first regular airmail service: Washington to New York

1918 Beaverbrook founds Sunday Express

1918 first direct radio message from UK to Australia received at AWA's Wahroonga facility

1919 rotary dial telephones

1919 Eccles & Jordan's flip-flop circuit

1919 shortwave radio

     1920

1920 Pearson-controlled Westminister Press buys UK provincial newspaper chains

1920 first broadcasting stations opened

1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts first scheduled radio programs

1921 Wittgenstein's Tractatus

1921 Western Union begins wirephoto service

1921 soap powder for washing machines

1921 first hamburger chain, White Castle

1921 Thorsten Veblen's The Engineers & the Price System

1922 UK BBC formed as commercial radio broadcaster

1922 Technicolour introduces two-colour process for movies

1922 average US weekly movie attendance is 40 million (1.56 per household)

1922 first film with optical sound track produced by Germany's UFA

1922 first radio advertisement in USA, US$100 for ten minutes

1922 first 3-D movie

1922 Dwiggins coins term 'graphic design'

1922 Nanook of the North, first documentary

1922 First portable radio in US

1923 Sydney to Brisbane telephone trunk line

1923 Disneys found film studio in Hollywood

1923 electric guitar

1923 first commercial radio broadcasting in Australia

1923 Book-of-the-Month Club founded

1923 Zworykin's electronic iconoscope camera and kinescope display

1923 A C Nielsen founded

1923 16mm nonflammable film

1923 Kodak introduces home movie equipment

1923 Time magazine

1923 Edward Bernays writes Crystallizing Public Opinion

1924 Marlboro is launched, targeted at women with the line 'Mild as May'

1924 invention of spiral binding for notebooks

1924 invention of Vegemite

1924 The Eveready Hour is the first sponsored radio program in US

1924 IBM incorporated

1924 2.5 million radio sets in the US

     1925

1925 Leica 35 mm camera

1925 commercial picture facsimile radio service across the US

1925 electric phonograph

1925 wide-screen film

1925 Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

1925 AT&T establishes Bell Labs




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