Mass Media has come a long way since paper was invented way back in China. Today, starting from newspapers, radio, television, cinema and internet, we have a plethora of mass mediums which we use and consume on a daily basis. These have practically become a part of our lives. Today, our lives seem to be impossible without these mass mediums. We are living in a information age - which is fueled by these mass mediums. Thus, in this blog I list the important mass media inventions that made today's mediascape possible.
Tsai Lun invents Paper in China in 105BC
First
wooden printing press invented in China in 305 AD
Quill pens
first appear in Seville, Spain in 600 AD
1454: Johannes
Gutenberg invents a printing press in 1454 in Germany. The printing press had
metal movable types.
1793: Clause
Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph
line.
1814: Joseph
Nicephore Niepce achieves the first photographic image.
1821: Charles
Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box, the first microphone in
England.
1831:
Joseph Henry invents first electric telegraph in America
1847:
Richard March Hoe designs rotary press
1875: J.G.A
Eickhoff builds a four-cylinder perfecting press, capable of printing two sides
of paper simultaneously.
1876:
Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph, an office copying machine in America.
1876:
Alexander Graham Bell invents and demonstrates telephone.
1877:
Thomas Edison and others develop carbon telephone transmitter
1877: Emile
Berliner invents the microphone
1877:
Eadweard Muybridge invents high-speed photography that captures motion
1894:
Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy.
1895:
Lumiere Brothers of Paris develop film projector
1899:
Valdemar Poulsen invents the first magnetic recordings, the foundation for both
mass data storage on disk and tape and the music recording industry.
1899:
Loudspeakers invented
1906: Lee
De Frost invents the electronic amplifying tube; this allowed all electronic
signals to be amplified improving all electronic communications i.e. telephone
and radio in America
1914: Oskar
Barnack exhibits small hand-held camera
1921:
Wirephoto, the first electronically – transmitted photograph dispatched
1923:
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin invents television transmitting and receiving system
employing cathode ray tubes
1925: John
Logie Baird transmits the first experimental television signal
1926:
Warner Brothers studios invent a process to record sound separately from the
film on large disks and synchronized the sound and motion picture tracks upon
playback – an improvement on Thomas Edison’s work
1933: FM
Radio patented by inventor Edwin H. Armstrong
1934:
Joseph Begun invents first tape recorder for broadcasting
1938:
Television broadcasts able to be taped and edited, rather than only live
1949: First
commercial electronic computer produced
1966: Xerox
invents Telecopier, the first successful fax machine
1969:
ARPANET – the first internet started
1979: First cellular phone communication network starts in Japan
