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Important Inventions and Inventors (Communication) |
Important Inventions
and Inventors (Communication)
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Invention |
Date |
Inventor |
Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
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Stereotyping |
1725 |
William Ged |
Scottish |
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Steel pen |
1780 |
Samuel Harrison |
English |
|
Hydraulic press |
1795 |
Joseph Bramah |
English |
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Lithography |
1796 |
Alois Senefelder |
German |
|
Papermaking machine |
1798 |
N.L. Robert |
French |
|
Printing press |
1810 |
Frederick Koenig |
German |
|
Typewriter |
1829 |
W.A. Burt |
American |
|
Braille printing |
1829 |
Louis Braille |
French |
|
Stereoscope |
1832 |
C. Wheatstone |
English |
|
Calotype photography |
1835 |
Henry F. Talbot |
English |
|
Telegraph |
1837 |
S.F.B. Morse |
American |
|
Morse code |
1838 |
S.F.B. Morse |
American |
|
Daguerreotype photography |
1839 |
Louis Daguerre |
French |
|
Blueprint |
1840 |
John Herschel |
English |
|
Facsimile |
1843 |
Alexander Bain |
Scottish |
|
Rotary printing press |
1846 |
Richard M. Hoe |
American |
|
Web-fed rotary press |
1865 |
William Bullock |
American |
|
Telephone |
1876 |
A.G. Bell |
American |
|
Phonograph |
1877 |
Thomas Edison |
American |
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Microphone |
1878 |
D.E. Hughes |
American |
|
Linotype |
1883 |
O. Mergenthaler |
American |
|
Fountain pen |
1884 |
L.E. Waterman |
American |
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Flexible roll film |
1884 |
George Eastman |
American |
|
Halftone engraving |
1886 |
F.E. Ives |
American |
|
Monotype |
1887 |
Tolbert Lanston |
American |
|
Kodak camera |
1888 |
George Eastman |
American |
|
Movie projector |
1893 |
Thomas Edison |
American |
|
Wireless telegraphy |
1896 |
G. Marconi |
Italian |
|
Telephotography |
1904 |
Arthur Korn |
American |
|
Audion |
1906 |
Lee De Forest |
American |
|
Superheterodyne radio circuit |
1918 |
E.H. Armstrong |
American |
|
Sound motion pictures |
1922-26 |
T.W. Case |
American |
|
Conception of television |
1908 |
A.A.C. Swinton |
Scottish |
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Iconoscope |
1923 |
V. Zworykin |
American |
|
Loudspeaker |
1924 |
C.W. Rice |
American |
|
Televisor |
1925 |
John L. Baird |
Scottish |
|
Image dissector |
1928 |
P. Farnsworth |
American |
|
Magnetic recording tape |
1928 |
Fritz Pfleumer |
German |
|
Stereophonic sound system |
1931 |
A.D. Blumlein English |
|
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Frequency modulation (FM) |
1933 |
E.H. Armstrong |
American |
|
Xerography |
1942 |
Chester Carlson |
American |
|
Holography |
1947 |
Dennis Gabon |
English |
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LP record |
1948 |
Peter Carl Goldmark |
American |
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Polaroid camera |
1948 |
Edwin Land |
American |
|
Color television picture tube |
1940 |
Guillermo González Camarena |
Mexican |
|
Color television system |
1940 |
Peter Carl Goldmark |
Born:Budapest 1906, Died: Westchester[N. Y.] 1977 |
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Videotape |
1956 |
Charles Ginsberg |
American |
|
Compact disc |
1979 |
Joop Sinjou |
Dutch |
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Compact disc interactive |
1986 |
Richard Bruno |
American |
