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1930:
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Photo flashbulbs replace dangerous flash powder.
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1930:
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"Golden Age" of radio begins in U.S.
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1930:
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Lowell Thomas begins first regular network newscast.
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1930:
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TVs based on British mechanical system roll off factory
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1930:
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Bush's differential analyzer introduces the computer.
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1930:
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AT&T tries the picture telephone
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1931:
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Commercial Teletype service.
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1931:
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Electronic TV broadcasts in Los Angeles and Moscow.
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1931:
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Exposures meters go on sale to photographers.
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1931:
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NBC experimentally doubles transmission to 120-line screen.
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1932:
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Disney adopts a three-color Technicolor process for cartoons.
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1932:
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Kodak introduces 8 mm film for home movies.
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1932:
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The "Times" of London uses its new Times Roman typeface.
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1932:
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Stereophonic sound in a motion picture, "Napoleon."
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1932:
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Zoom lens is invented, but a practical model is 21 years off.
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1932:
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The light meter.
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1932:
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NBC and CBS allow prices to be mentioned in commercials.
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1933:
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Armstrong invents FM, but its real future is 20 years off.
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1933:
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Multiple-flash sports photography.
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1933:
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Singing telegrams.
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1933:
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Phonograph records go stereo.
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1934:
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Drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey.
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1934:
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Salvador Dali's Mae West
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1934:
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Associated Press starts wirephoto service.
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1934:
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In Germany, a mobile television truck roams the streets.
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1934:
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In Scotland, teletypesetting sets type by phone line.
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1934:
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Three-color Technicolor used in live action film.
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1934:
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Communications Act of 1934 creates FCC.
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1934:
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Half of the homes in the U.S. have radios.
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1934:
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Mutual Radio Network begins operations.
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1935:
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German single lens reflex roll film camera synchronized for
flash bulbs.
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1935:
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Also in Germany, audio tape recorders go on sale.
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1935:
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IBM's electric typewriter comes off the assembly line.
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1935:
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The Penguin paperback book sells for the price of 10 cigarettes.
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1935:
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All-electronic VPF television comes out of the lab.
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1935:
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Eastman-Kodak develops Kodachrome color film.
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1935:
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Nielsen's Audimeter tracks radio audiences.
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1936:
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Berlin Olympics are televised closed circuit.
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1936:
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Bell Labs invents a voice recognition machine.
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1936:
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Kodachrome film sharpens color photography.
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1936:
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Co-axial cable connects New York to Philadelphia.
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1936:
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Alan Turing's "On Computable Numbers" describes a general
purpose computer.
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1937:
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Piet Mondrian's Opposition of Lines,
Red and Yellow
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1937:
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Stibitz of Bell Labs invents the electrical digital calculator.
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1937:
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Pulse Code Modulation points the way to digital transmission.
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1937:
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NBC sends mobile TV truck onto New York streets.
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1937:
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A recording, the Hindenburg crash, is broadcast coast to coast.
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1937:
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Paul Klee's Picture Album
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1937:
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Carlson invents the photocopier.
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1937:
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Snow White is the first feature-length cartoon.
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1938:
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Strobe lighting.
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1938:
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Baird demonstrates live TV in color.
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1938:
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René Magritte's Time
Transfixed
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1938:
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Broadcasts can be taped and edited.
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1938:
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Two brothers named Biro invent the ballpoint pen in Argentina.
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1938:
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CBS "World News Roundup" ushers in modem newscasting.
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1938:
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DuMont markets electronic television receiver for the home.
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1938:
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Radio drama "War of the Worlds" causes national panic.
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1939:
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Mechanical scanning system abandoned.
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1939:
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New York Worlds Fair shows television to public.
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1939:
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Regular TV broadcasts begin.
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1939:
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Air mail service across the Atlantic.
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1939:
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Many firsts: sports coverage, variety show, feature film, etc.
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