 Printing Press

Johannes Gutenburg devised movable metal type, permitting mass production of

printed materials.
 Book
Johannes Gutenberg printed the first of his Bibles using movable type.
 Newspaper
Ben Harris printed Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first
newspaper in the English colonies.
 Magazine
Edward Cave published a periodical called The Gentleman’s Magazine. He also
coined the word “magazine” from the Arabic word makhazin, which meant
storehouse.
 Typewriter
Charles Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule created the first
commercially successful ‘type-writer’.
 Telegraph
The first telegraph message travelled 40 miles and read “What Hath God Wrought?”,
developed by Samuel Morse.
 Phonograph
The first record was of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, recorded and recited by
Thomas Alva Edison. It could record and play back sounds.
 Telephone
“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you,” were the first words spoken on a
successful telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell.
 Motion Picture Camera
Tomas Edison wrote, "I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the
eye what the phonograph does for the ear,” thus, the invention of Kinetoscope.
 Kodak Camera
It had a 100 exposure roll of flexible film, invented by George Eastman.
 Radio
Six months after Tesla’s death, the US Supreme Court ruled that all of Guglielmo
Marconi’s radio patents were invalid and awarded the patents for radio to Nikola
Tesla.
 Television
Once called an “Image Dissector” by the 21-year-old inventor, Philo Taylor
Farnsworth.
 ENIAC Computer
Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator computer birthed by the partnership
of John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert.
 Cable Television
It was innovated by John Walson Sr. to enhance poor reception of over-the-air
television signals in geographically remote areas.
 Videotape
Videotapes built the Blockbuster empire. It was invented by Charles Ginsberg, a
researcher at Ampex Corporation.
  Satellite
The Soviet Union was the first to successfully launch an artificial satellite into space
through Sputnik I.
 Internet
The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was sponsored by
the US DARPA (Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency).
 Sony Walkman
Masaru Ibuka, Sony's co-founder, brought the Sony Walkman TPS-L2 to Chairman
Akio Morita and said, "Try this. Don't you think a stereo cassette player that you can
listen to while walking around is a good idea?"
 Mobile Phone
The DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available handheld mobile phone
demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola.
 Portable Computer
The first portable computer was created by a company called Osborne, led by a
journalist turned entrepreneur named Adam Osborne.
 CD Player
The Sony CDP-101 was first released in Japan. Seven months later, it finally arrived
in the US, complete with a vast library of 16 available albums.
 World Wide Web
Invented by Tim Berners-Lee. Whilst it’s often confused with the Internet itself,
the web is just the most common mean of accessing data online in the form of
websites and hyperlinks.
 Web 1.0
It is the “read-only web” as described by Tim Berners-Lee.
 Smartphone
IBM created the first smartphone called the Simon Personal Communicator.
 2G Mobile
2G (second generation) cellular telecom networks were commercially launched on
the GSM standard in Finland by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj).
 3G Mobile
This global standard was realized after years of collaborative work between ITU and
the global cellular community.
 Web 2.0
Explained by Tim Berners-Lee, it is the “read-write” web.