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IT'S ABOUT TIME!
Electricity runs the printing press. |
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ADVERTISING
AGENCY
Volney B. Palmer founds the first advertising agency. Its chief
function is to sell advertising space in newspapers to those
located outside of Philadelphia. Palmer charges 25 percent of
the advertising rate (plus postage!). By 1849 he becomes so
successful that he opens additional offices in Baltimore, Boston,
and New York. |
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TELEGRAPH
LINE
Samuel Morse ('inventor' of the telegraph) is granted $30 000
from Congress to erect the experimental first long-distance
telegraph line, connecting Washington D.C. and Baltimore. |
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TORONTO
NEWSPAPER
On March 5th, the Toronto Globe is published for the first time
ever by George Brown, a Scottish immigrant. Its weekly circulation
grew within a span of 9 years from 300 to 6000, when it became
a daily. George Brown, an important member of the Canadian Reform
Party became one of the Fathers of Confederation. In 1880 he
was shot in the leg by a former employee and died several weeks
later of an infection. The paper was bought by a syndicate and
adopted, in 1936, the slogan "Canada's National Newspaper". |
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EXPANSION
Thanks to Morse, the telegraph now runs between the cities of
Washington and Baltimore. |
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WHAT
WE WANT TO KNOW IS… HOW THE HECK DID THEY TYPE BEFORE?
The typewriter ribbon is invented. |
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SLIDE
SHOW
The invention of the photographic slide. |
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FLASH,
HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY
Talbot takes a photograph - with a flash, no less - at 1/100
000 second exposure. Wow! |
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MACHINES
DO MORE WORK
A printing telegraph is invented in the USA. |
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…PERFECT!
It took them long enough to figure it out… but the eraser was
finally stuck to the end of the pencil. |
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POSTAGE
STAMPS
On May 6th the first adhesive postage stamps are used in Britain.
The so-called "Penny Blacks", invented by an American inventor
named Jacob Perkins, showed the head of Queen Victoria and were
printed in numbers reaching sixty-four million. Nevertheless,
British postal revenues fell drastically and did not improve
until 35 years later. |
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HO
HO HO
The Christmas card is created. |
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LONG-DISTANCE
TELEGRAPH MESSAGE
The first long-distance telegraph message, "What hath God wrought"
is transmitted by Samuel Morse from the U.S. Supreme Court Room
in Washington D.C. to the B&O Railroad station at Baltimore,
on May 24th. |
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WHAT
THE HECK DID YOU THINK IT WAS MADE OF?
German Engineer Gottlob Keller invents a way to make paper from
wood pulp. Cheaper than the current method of using rags and
plant fibres, this new system reduces the price of newsprint
and allows mass media to further expand. |
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INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNICIATION
A cable stretches across the English Channel between England
and France. |
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ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH COMPANY FOUNDED
Cooke and Ricardo found the Electric Telegraph Co. |
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THAT'S
A LOT OF NEWS
The United States now has 254 daily newspapers. |
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REUTERS
NEWS
Reuters News Service, started by Paul Reuter (who also pioneered
the use of carrier pigeons to convey messages and stock prices
where telegraph lines are nonexistant), is a cable service which
carries stock prices, then news in general, then becomes a worldwide
news agency. |
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TRANSATLANTIC
CABLE
On August 16th, Queen Victoria and President Buchanan exchange
a message over the first transatlantic cable. Her Royal Majesty
sends the words "Glory to God in the Highest, peace on earth,
good will to men". Soon after, the first commercial message
was sent (at the huge cost of 5 dollars per word!) by J. and
J. Cash (makers of name labels). Unfortunately, the insulation
of the cable wears by October, rendering the cable useless. |
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HELOOO
DOWN THERE.
The first aerial photograph was taken this year.
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