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1820:
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Arithmometer, forerunner of the calculator.
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1821:
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In England, Wheatstone reproduces sound.
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1823:
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Babbage builds a section of a calculating machine.
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1823:
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In England, Ronalds builds a telegraph in his garden; no one is
interested.
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1825:
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Persistence of vision shown with Thaumatrope.
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1826:
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Samuel Morse's painting of
Lafayette
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1826:
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Earliest Niépce
camera
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1827:
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Niépce makes a true photograph.
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1827:
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In London, Wheatstone constructs a microphone.
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1829:
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Daguerre joins Niépce to pursue photographic inventions.
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1829:
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Burt gets the first U.S. patent for a typewriter.
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1830:
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Calendered paper is produced in England.
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1832:
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Phenakistoscope in Belgium and Stroboscope in Austria point to
motion pictures.
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1833:
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A penny buys a New York newspaper, opening a mass market.
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1833:
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In Germany, a telegraph running nearly two miles.
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1834:
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Babbage conceives the analytical engine, forerunner of the
computer.
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1835:
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Bennett publishes the first of his penny press editions.
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1836:
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Rowland Hill starts to reform British postal system.
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1837:
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Wheatstone and Cooke patent an electric telegraph in England.
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1837:
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Daguerrotype, Still Life, ammonites
(detail)
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1837:
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Morse exhibits an electric telegraph in the U.S.
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1837:
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Pitman publishes a book on shorthand in England.
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1837:
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Daguerre cuts photo exposure time to 20 minutes.
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1838:
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In England, Wheatstone's Stereoscope shows pictures in 3-D.
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1838:
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Morse exhibits an electric telegraph in the U.S.
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1838:
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Daguerre-Niépce method begins photography craze.
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1839:
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Fox Talbot in England produces photographs.
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1839:
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Herschel invents hypo fixative.
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1839:
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In Russia, Jacobi invents electrotyping, the duplicating of
printing plates.
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1839:
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Electricity runs a printing press.
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1839:
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Fox Talbot in England prints photographs from negatives.
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1839:
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Daguerre's camera, built by
Giroux
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Cover of first pirated version of
Daguerre's manual
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