Media Timeline: 1901-1925
1901
first electric typewriter, the Blickensderfer
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first UK cinema opens
Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
Gillette introduces double-edged safety razor
Marconi sends radio signal across Atlantic
establishment of Australian Commonwealth; PostMaster-General's 16,000 staff account for 90% of federal bureaucracy
22,310 telephone subscribers in Australia (79% in capital cities)
1902
US Navy installs radio telephones aboard ships
photoelectric scanning used for image transfer
invention of the Teddy Bear
national syndication of comic strips in US begins when Hearst licenses his strips to other newspapers
Trans-Pacific telephone cable connects Canada and Australia
1903
London Daily Mirror illustrates only with photographs
Ford Motor Co incorporated
Schreiber and Aronson found Les Échos
1904
telephone answering machine
photograph transmitted by wire in Germany
comic book
death of Joseph Pulitzer
double-sided phonograph disc
Jaures founds L'Humanité
1905
invention of the Yellow Pages
juke box
Marcus Loew and Adolph Zukor form Loews Consolidated theatre chain
Australian Wireless Telegraphy Act regulates local airwaves
1906
offset press
first classical music radio broadcast
de Forest invents three-element vacuum tube
Dunwoody and Pickard build crystal-&-cat's-whisker radio
animated cartoon film
Fessenden invents wireless telephony
experimental sound-on-film motion picture
experimental radio transmissions at Queenscliff, Victoria and Devonport, Tasmania by the Marconi Company
1907
Bell & Howell develop a film projection system
Lumiere brothers invent still colour photography process
electric washing machine - The Thor
United Press International (UPI) founded
Melbourne to Sydney telephone trunk line
1908
Ford's Model T
electric iron and toaster patented
Mills & Boon founded
Sidgwick & Jackson founded
Christian Science Monitor founded
1909
radio distress signal saves 1,700 lives after ships collide
first broadcast talk (on votes for women)
pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households at one per ten people
1910
Amalgamated Wireless Australia (AWA) formed
first live opera broadcast
Harrap founded
1911
UK and Australian Copyright Acts provide protection for author's lifetime plus 50 years
American Tobacco Company controls 92% of world's tobacco business, just a bit more than Microsoft's share of the browser market in early 2001
Photoplay magazine launched - first movie fan magazine and "genesis of celebrity culture"
nationalisation of National Telephone Co in UK
1912
WW Astor and WT Stead die in the Titanic
Mises' The Theory of Money & Credit
US passes law to control radio stations
first neon sign
first airmail
first automatic telephone exchange in Australia
1913
portable phonograph
est one-third of British households own a phonograph
first newspaper crossword puzzle
1914
radio message is sent to an airplane
35mm still camera
American Audit Bureau of Circulations formed
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
Allen & Unwin founded
first transcontinental telephone call in US
Melbourne to Adelaide telephone trunk
1915
wireless radio service connects US and Japan
radio-telephone carries speech across Atlantic
Birth of a Nation
electric loudspeaker
1916
United Newspapers formed in UK
Hugenberg gains control of Scherl
Sarnoff envisages radio as "a household utility"
cameras get optical rangefinders
radios get tuners
US postal inspectors solve last known stagecoach robbery
1917
photocomposition begins
Wente's condenser microphone
Capek uses term "robot" in Opilek
1915
first regular airmail service: Washington to New York
Beaverbrook founds Sunday Express
first direct radio message from UK to Australia received at AWA's Wahroonga facility
1919
rotary dial telephones
Eccles & Jordan's flip-flop circuit
shortwave radio
est. 1 million miles flown on scheduled routes (with 7,500 passengers)
Joseph Medill Patterson founds New York Illustrated Daily News
Crowell Publishing Company buys Colliers
1920
Pearson-controlled Westminister Press buys UK provincial newspaper chains
merger of Agence Havas and Société Générale des Annonces advertising agency
Heinemann founded
Nazi Party buys Franz Eher Verlag and Völkischer Beobachter
first broadcasting stations opened
KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts first scheduled radio programs
first US transcontinental airmail
1921
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
de Volkskrant founded
Western Union begins wirephoto service
soap powder for washing machines
first hamburger chain, White Castle
Thorsten Veblen's The Engineers & the Price System
1922
UK BBC formed as commercial radio broadcaster
UFA film company consolidated
Technicolour introduces two-colour process for movies
average US weekly movie attendance is 40 million (1.56 per household)
first film with optical sound track produced by UFA
first radio advertisement in USA, US$100 for ten minutes
first 3-D movie
Dwiggins coins term 'graphic design'
Nanook of the North, first documentary
first portable radio in US
PCF gains control of L'Humanité
1923
Sydney to Brisbane telephone trunk line
Disneys found film studio in Hollywood
electric guitar
first commercial radio broadcasting in Australia
Book-of-the-Month Club founded
Phaidon founded
Zworykin's electronic iconoscope camera and kinescope display
A C Nielsen founded
Young & Rubicam founded
16mm nonflammable film
Kodak introduces home movie equipment
Time magazine
Edward Bernays writes Crystallizing Public Opinion
1924
Marlboro is launched, targeted at women with the line 'Mild as May'
invention of spiral binding for notebooks
invention of Vegemite
The Eveready Hour is first sponsored radio program in US
IBM incorporated
Music Corporation of America (MCA) founded
2.5 million radio sets in the US
MacFadden launches New York Evening Graphic
Coolidge spends US$120,000 on radio time in first radio presidential campaign
Loew buys Metro Pictures
Bathursts sell Morning Post to Duke of Northumberland consortium
1925
Leica 35 mm camera
commercial picture facsimile radio service across the US
electric phonograph
wide-screen film
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
AT&T establishes Bell Labs
Random House founded
Faber & Gwyer founded
Marinho takes control of O Globo newspaper
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