| 1860: | In U.S., Sholes builds a functional typewriter. |
| 1860: | Pony Express carries mail between St. Joseph, Mo. and Sacramento. |
| 1861: | Telegraph brings Pony Express to an abrupt end. |
| 1861: | First chemical means to color photography. |
| 1861: | Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope. |
| 1862: | In Italy, Caselli sends a drawing over a wire. |
| 1862: | in U.S., paper money. |
| 1863: | Large U.S. cities get free home delivery of mail. |
| 1863: | First international postal conference held in Paris. |
| 1864: | Workers in "railway post office" sort mail on trains. |
| 1864: | Postal money orders sold in U.S; $1.3 million in 6 months. |
| 1864: | The railroad train hooks on a mail car. |
| 1864: | In Virginia, wireless electromagnetic waves are transmitted 14 miles. |
| 1865: | Atlantic cable ties Europe and U.S. for instant communication. |
| 1866: | Western Union dominates U.S. wires. |
| 1867: | In U.S., Sholes builds a functional typewriter. |
| 1868: | Writing machine is called a "Type-Writer"; so is the typist. |
| 1869: | Carbon paper is invented. |
| 1869: | Color photography, using the subtractive method. |
| 1869: | From Austria, postcards. |
| 1870: | Stock ticker comes to Wall Street. |
| 1871: | Halftone process allows newspaper printing of pictures. |
| 1872: | Simultaneous transmission from both ends of a telegraph wire. |
| 1872: | Wood pulp will be the source of paper, thanks to Swedish sulfite process |
| 1873: | U.S. postcard debuts; costs one penny. |
| 1873: | Illustrated daily newspaper appears in New York. |
| 1873: | Maxwell publishes theory of radio waves. |
| 1873: | First color photographs. |
| 1873: | Remington starts manufacturing Sholes' typewriters. |
| 1873: | Typewriters get the QWERTY pseudo-scientific keyboard. |
| 1873: | Lord Kelvin calculates the tides with a machine. |
| 1873: | In Ireland, May uses selenium to send a signal through the Atlantic cable. |
| 1874: | Universal Postal Union formed. |
| 1875: | Edison invents the mimeograph. |
| 1875: | In the U.S., Carey designs a selenium mosaic to transmit a picture. |
| 1876: | Bell invents the telephone. |
| 1877: | In France, Charles Cros invents the phonograph. |
| 1877: | In America, Edison also invents the phonograph |
| 1878: | Muybridge photographs a horse in motion. |
| 1878: | Cathode ray tube is invented by Crookes, English chemist. |
| 1878: | The dynamic microphone is invented in the U.S. and Germany. |
| 1878: | Telephone directories are issued. |
| 1878: | Full page newspaper ads. |
| 1878: | In France, praxinoscope, an optical toy, a step toward movies. |
| 1878: | Hughes invents the microphone. |
| 1878: | Dry-plate photography. |
| 1879: | Benday process aids newspaper production of maps, drawings. |