| 1880: | First photos in newspapers, using halftones. |
| 1880: | Edison invents the electric light. |
| 1880: | France's Leblanc theorizes transmitting a picture in segments. |
| 1880: | First parcel post. |
| 1880: | Business offices begin to look modern. |
| 1882: | In England, the first Wirephotos. |
| 1883: | Edison stumbles onto "Edison effect"; basis of broadcast tubes. |
| 1884: | In Germany, Nipkow scanning disc, early version of television. |
| 1884: | People can now make long distance phone calls. |
| 1884: | Electric tabulator is introduced. |
| 1884: | Waterman's fountain pen blots out earlier versions. |
| 1885: | Dictating machines are bought for offices. |
| 1885: | Eastman makes coated photo printing paper. |
| 1885: | U.S. Post Office offers special delivery. |
| 1885: | Trains are delivering newspapers daily. |
| 1886: | Graphophone's wax cylinder and sapphire stylus improve sound. |
| 1886: | Mergenthaler constructs a linotype machine for setting type. |
| 1887: | Celluloid film; it will replace glass plate photography. |
| 1887: | Montgomery Ward mails out a 540-page catalog. |
| 1887: | Berliner gets music from a flat disc stamped out by machine. |
| 1887: | Comptometer multi-function adding machine is manufactured. |
| 1888: | "Kodak" box camera makes picture taking simple. |
| 1888: | Heinrich Hertz proves the existence of radio waves. |
| 1888: | The coin-operated public telephone. |
| 1888: | Edison's phonograph is manufactured for sale to the public. |
| 1889: | Herman Hollerith counts the population with punch cards. |
| 1889: | Strowger, Kansas City undertaker, invents automatic telephone exchange. |
| 1890: | A.B. Dick markets the mimeograph. |
| 1890: | Typewriters are in common use in offices. |
| 1890: | In England, Friese-Greene builds the kinematograph camera and projector. |
| 1890: | In France, Branly's coherer conducts radio waves. |
| 1891: | Large press prints and folds 90,000 4-page papers an hour. |
| 1891: | Telephoto lens is attached to the camera. |
| 1891: | Edison's assistant, Dickson, builds the Kinetograph motion picture camera. |
| 1892: | Edison and Dickson invent the peep-show Kinetoscope. |
| 1892: | 4-color rotary press. |
| 1892: | Portable typewriters. |
| 1892: | Automatic telephone switchboard comes into service. |
| 1893: | Dickson builds a motion picture studio in New Jersey. |
| 1893: | Addressograph joins the office machinery. |
| 1894: | Marconi invents wireless telegraphy. |
| 1894: | Box making machines give impetus to packaging industry. |
| 1894: | Berliner's flat phonograph disc competes with the cylinder. |
| 1895: | France's Lumiere brothers build a portable movie camera. |
| 1895: | Paris audience sees movies projected. |
| 1895: | In England, Friese-Greene invents phototypesetting. |
| 1895: | Dial telephones go into Milwaukee's city hall. |
| 1896: | Underwood model permits typists to see what they are typing. |
| 1896: | The monotype sets type by machine in single characters. |
| 1896: | Electric power is used to run a paper mill. |
| 1896: | In Britain, the motion picture projector is manufactured. |
| 1896: | X-ray photography. |
| 1896: | Rural free delivery (RFD) inaugurated. |
| 1897: | In England, postmen deliver mail to every home. |
| 1897: | In Germany, Braun improves Crookes' tube with fluorescence. |
| 1897: | General Electric creates a publicity department. |
| 1898: | Photographs taken by artificial light. |
| 1898: | New York State passes a law against misleading advertising. |
| 1899: | The loudspeaker. |
| 1899: | Sound is recorded magnetically by Poulsen of Denmark. |
| 1899: | American Marconi Company incorporated; forerunner of RCA. |