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WHO'S ASSISTING WHO, ANYWAY?
In New Jersy Dickson (Edison's assistant) opens a motion picture
studio. |
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AHEAD
OF THEIR TIME
Lucky parisians see movies on the projection screen. |
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I
KNOW WHAT YOU HAD FOR LUNCH
X-rays. |
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MY
SOCKS DON'T SEEM WHITER THAN WHITE...
In New York, at least, misleading advertising is illegal. |
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WIRELESS
TRANSATLANTIC MESSAGES
The first WIRELESS transatlantic message was received at Signal
Hill, Newfoundland, Canada, on December 12th. The message (the
letter S) was sent from Cornwall, England and received by Guglielmo
Marconi, with a kite antenna. |
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WIRELESS
TRANSATLANTIC ROYAL MESSAGES
Guglielmo Marconi sends a wireless telegraph on January 19th
from President Roosevelt to King Edward VII of Britain, at his
new signal station in South Wellfleet, Massechusetts, USA. The
message was sent at a speed of 17 words per minute and is received
3000 miles away in Cornwall, England. |
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PARKER
PEN
George S. Parker patents a better, easier-to-fill, fountain
pen. |
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JOURNALISM
SCHOOL
At the University of Missouri, the first professional school
of journalism is opened. |
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COMMUNIST
NEWSPAPER
Pravda, the official mouthpiece of Russia's (currently) underground
Communist party is published. Its title means 'Truth' in Russian,
and though it publishes only one view of the truth, Pravda achieves
the world's greatest circulation, and continues until 1991.
Vladimir Lenin himself has editorial control at the paper's
commencement. The newspaper attempts to encourage uniformity
of thought among its readers by emphasizing the party line,
but its articles are generally well-written and informative,
though limited to Socialist viewpoints. |
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LONG-DISTANCE
PHONE SERVICE
Consumers may now place long-distance telephone calls between
New York City and San Francisco on January 25th. Aged 68, Alexander
Graham Bell repeats his first ever telephone message ("Mr. Watson,
come here, I want you") to Thomas Watson, in San Francisco.
The calls takes 23 minutes to place, at a cost of $20.70 |
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WIRELESS
TELEGRAPH
Marconi premieres the wireless telegraph. |
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WELL
WHADDYA KNOW…
Using the Underwood typewriter, typists can actually see what
they're typing, AS THEY TYPE IT. Wow! |
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YES,
VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS
An eight-year old named Virginia O'Hanlon writes to the editor
of the New York Sun, asking if Santa Claus really exists-some
of her friends have been telling her otherwise, and she isn't
sure, but she's heard her father tell her that if you read it
in the Sun, it's so. The editor, Francis Church (aged 58) affirms
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in what has become one
of the most famous editorial pieces of all time. |
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TELEPHONE
USE SOARS
Every 13th house in the USA has a telephone. |
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COMIC
STRIP
On May 4th, the first successful comic strip, "Buster Brown",
was first printed. Drawn by Richard F. Outcault, it recounted
the adventures of Buster, a middle-class boy, and Tige, his
dog. |
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PULITZER
PRIZE
On April 10, Joseph Pulitzer donates two million dollars towards
a school of journalism at Columbia University. Five hundred
thousand dollars of this endowment were specified as "prizes
or scholarships for the encouragement of public service, public
morale, American literature, and the advancement of education."
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RADIO
BROADCAST
On December 24th in Brant Rock, Massachusetts, the first voice
and music radio broadcast occurred. Ships within several hundred
miles heard it. |
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NEWSREEL
Newsreels, demonstrating current events, are shown for the first
time in Britain and the USA by Charles and Emil Pathé. |
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WHAT'S
A 5-LETTER WORD FOR…?
Although crosswords have been spotted in English Children's
periodicals, the first U.S. crossword puzzle is not published
until December 21st of this year, in the weekend edition of
the New York World. It was written by Arthur Wynne, and arranged
in a diamond pattern with 31 clues. Some of the (simple) word
definitions include: "What bargain hunters enjoy" (5 letters)
"A boy" (3 letters) "An animal of prey" (four letters)
Answers: sales, lad, lion |
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RADIO
'MUSIC BOX'
David Sarnoff tries to convince companies to make a simple
radio music box. The American Marconi Company likes his plan
to make 75-dollar radios. According to his predictions, one
million could be sold within three years. The company believes
that his plan will make the radio a household utility in the
same way that the piano and the phonograph are household utilities.
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