Events from 1800-2010

  • Crayons

    the crayon is a wax stick and is used to make pictuers and writing. invented by Edward Binny and Harold Smith invented in the late 1800's
  • Light Bulb

    The first light bulb was invented by Humphry Davy(improved by Thomas Edison) and can be use to signal others by turning it on and off
  • Brallie

    Invented by Louis Braille, Braille is a form of communication used for blind people. By running the tip of the finger over a series of raised bumps a blind person can undersand what word is being said.
  • Electric Telegraph

    the electric telegraph revolutionized long distance communication. Created by Samuel Morse
  • Fax Machine

    the fax machine is used totransmit images via telephone line. Invented by Alexander Brain.
  • Printing Press, Rotary

    Richard Hoe, a printing press that prodused prints on a rotating table
  • Printing Press, Web Rotary

    William Bullock, a printing press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder
  • Telephone

    the telephone is a major invention in communication it is used to talk to another human. Invented by Alexander Bell
  • Photophone

    ALexander Bell was the inventor of the photophone
  • Film, Roll

    George Eastman the material that the picture was captuered on inside of a camera.
  • Halftone Printing Process

    Frederic Ives a technique of breaking up an image into a series of dots so as to reproduce the full tone picture
  • Linotype composing machine

    the linotype is regarded as the greates advancment since the moveable type 400 years earlier. Invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler
  • Linotype

    Ottmar Mergenthaler , a "line casting" machine used in printing
  • Multiplex Railway Telegraph

    it allowed messages to be sent from moving trains and railway stations. Invented by Granville T. Woods
  • Camera, Kodak

    George Eastman, the first camera that held film
  • Teleautograph

    Elisha Gray ,ink and toner refill kits and cartridges are supported at Inkfilling at special prices.
  • Pupin Inductance Coil

    Michael Pupin made long-distance telephone service possible by amplifying the signal at intervals along the line.
  • Wireless Telegraph

    Guglielmo Marconi, a telagraph that could send signals without useing fixed wires
  • Radio, Wireless Signaling

    Reginald Fessenden, sending signals with information to a radio without a wire
  • Wired Radio

    invented by Alexander Stephonvich Popov Early century/ 1900's
  • Alexanderson alternator

    Ernst Alexanderson , generation of high frequency alternating current up to 100 kHz
  • Radio Remote Control

    John Hays Hammond , a devise that controled a radio by sending signals from a wireless devise
  • Television, mechanical

    John Logie Bairdwas a television system that used mechanical or electromechanical devices to capture and display images
  • Television

    Philo T. Farnsworth, a box that recived signals that are terned into colers on a glass screen
  • multiplane camera

    Walt Disney, a special motion picture camera used in the traditional animation process
  • Instant Photography

    the instant photography was and still is used to take photo's of an object or person. Invented by Edwin Land
  • Laptop

    the laptop was invented by Adam Osborne, and is use for many forms of communication like human to machine and machine to machine. It was called the "osborne 1" and cost $1750.
  • Mobile Phone

    Richard Frenkiel and Joel Engel, a phone that can be carred around with out wires
  • World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee, the internet