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