| 1800: | Paper can be made from vegetable fibers instead of rags. |
| 1800: | Letter takes 20 days to reach Savannah from Portland, Maine. |
| 1801: | Semaphore system built along the coast of France. |
| 1801: | Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents a loom using punch cards. |
| 1803: | Fourdrinier continuous web paper-making machine. |
| 1804: | In Germany, lithography is invented |
| 1806: | Carbon paper. |
| 1807: | Camera lucida improves image tracing. |
| 1808: | Turri of Italy builds a typewriter for a blind contessa. |
| 1810: | An electro-chemical telegraph is constructed in Germany. |
| 1810: | Postal services consolidated under uniform private contracts. |
| 1813: | Congress authorizes steam boats to carry mail. |
| 1814: | In England, a steam-powered rotary press prints The Times. |
| 1815: | 3,000 post offices in U.S. |
| 1816: | Newspapers carried for less than 2 cents postage. |
| 1816: | Niépce captures image with 8-hour exposure. |
| 1818: | Stamped letter paper is sold in Sardinia. |
| 1818: | In Sweden, Berzelius isolates selenium; its electric conductivity reacts to light. |
| 1819: | Napier builds a rotary printing press. |