Key communication and media inventions, from the printing press through television and the internet, matched with their inventor and approximate date, one invention per card.
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- Who invented the printing press?
- Johannes Gutenberg, 1440
- Who invented the telegraph?
- Samuel Morse, 1830s
- Who invented the telephone?
- Alexander Graham Bell, 1876
- Who invented the phonograph?
- Thomas Edison, 1877
- Who invented the gramophone?
- Emil Berliner, 1887
- Who invented photography?
- Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1820s
- Who invented photographic film?
- George Eastman, 1889
- Who invented lithography?
- Aloys Senefelder, 1796
- Who invented the typewriter?
- Christopher Sholes, 1868
- Who invented the facsimile (fax) machine?
- Alexander Bain, 1843
- Who invented xerography?
- Chester Carlson, 1938
- Who pioneered radio transmission?
- Guglielmo Marconi, 1895
- Who invented television?
- Philo Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin, 1920s
- Who invented the loudspeaker?
- Chester W. Rice and Edward W. Kellogg, 1921
- Who invented the magnetic tape recorder?
- Fritz Pfleumer, 1928