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1900:
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Kodak Brownie makes photography cheaper and simpler.
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1900:
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Pupin's loading coil reduces telephone voice distortion.
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1901:
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Sale of phonograph disc made of hard resinous shellac.
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1901:
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First electric typewriter, the Blickensderfer.
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1901:
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Marconi sends a radio signal across the Atlantic.
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1902:
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Germany's Zeiss invents the four-element Tessar camera lens.
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1902:
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Etched zinc engravings start to replace hand-cut wood blocks.
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1902:
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U.S. Navy installs radio telephones aboard ships.
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1902:
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Photoelectric scanning can send and receive a picture.
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1902:
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Trans-Pacific telephone cable connects Canada and Australia.
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1903:
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Technical improvements in radio, telegraph, phonograph, movies
and printing.
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1903:
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London Daily Mirror illustrates only with photographs.
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1904:
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A telephone answering machine is invented.
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1904:
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Fleming invents the diode to improve radio communication.
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1904:
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Offset lithography becomes a commercial reality.
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1904:
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A photograph is transmitted by wire in Germany.
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1904:
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Hine photographs America!s underclass.
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1904:
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The Great Train Robbery creates demand for fiction movies.
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1904:
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The comic book.
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1904:
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The double-sided phonograph disc.
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1905:
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In Pittsburgh the first nickelodeon opens.
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1905:
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Photography, printing, and post combine in the year's craze,
picture postcards.
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1905:
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In France, Pathe colors black and white films by machine.
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1905:
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In New Zealand, the postage meter is introduced.
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1905:
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The Yellow Pages.
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1905:
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The juke box; 24 choices.
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1906:
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In Britain, new process colors books cheaply.
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1906:
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A program of voice and music is broadcast in the U.S.
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1906:
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Lee de Forest invents the three-element vacuum tube.
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1906:
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Dunwoody and Pickard build a crystal-and-cat's-whisker radio.
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1906:
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An animated cartoon film is produced.
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1906:
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Fessenden plays violin for startled ship wireless operators.
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1906:
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An experimental sound-on-film motion picture.
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1906:
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Strowger invents automatic dial telephone switching.
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1907:
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Bell and Howell develop a film projection system.
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1907:
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Lumiere brothers invent still color photography process.
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1907:
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DeForest begins regular radio music broadcasts.
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1907:
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In Russia, Rosing develops theory of television.
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1908:
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In U.S., Smith introduces true color motion pictures.
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1909:
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Radio distress signal saves 1,700 lives after ships collide.
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1909:
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First broadcast talk; the subject: women's suffrage.
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