A history of media development 1 1844 Innocenzo

A history of media development 1

1844: Innocenzo Manzetti suggests the idea of a ‘speaking telegraph’ but doesn’t pursue the concept. 2

1876: Alexander Graham Bell is awarded the patent for the first electric telephone. 3

1878: David E. Hughes notices that sparks can be heard in a telephone receiver. After disinterest from the Royal Society, he abandons his research. 4

1885: Thomas Edison patents his electrostatic coupling system between elevated terminals. 5

1892: Nikola Tesla demonstrates the principles of wireless communication. 6

1895: Guglielmo Marconi builds the first long range radio transmission system, capable of transmitting at a distance of up to one and a half miles. 7

1906: On Christmas Eve, Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast programme. Ships at sea hear him reading a passage from the Bible and playing O Holy Night on the violin. 8

1920: The first college radio station opens in America, broadcasting Thursday night concerts to a 100 mile radius. The first sports broadcast followed a month later. 9

1925: Scots inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the transmission of moving silhouette images. 1926: Baird transmits moving black and white images – the first true television pictures. 10

1935: Edwin Armstrong invents FM radio. 11

1936: Pictures of the Berlin Olympics are broadcast to television stations in Berlin and Leipzig, where members of the public could watch the events live. 12

1960: Sony produces the first portable transistor radio, small enough to fit in someone’s pocket. 13

1981: Music Television (MTV) is launched in America. The era of the pop video is born. 14

1985: 2 billion people across 60 countries watch the Live Aid concert. 15

1995: The Internet is made open to commercial use. In the late ‘ 90 s, Internet use grows by an estimated 100% each year. 16

2011: There are over 2 billion Internet users worldwide – over 30% of the world’s population. 17