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Englishmen, Henry Mill receives the first patent for a typewriter
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1793Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line.
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1814Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves the first photographic image.
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1821Charles Wheatstone reproduces sound in a primitive sound box - the first microphone.
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1831 Joseph Henry invents the first electric telegraph
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1835 Samuel Morse invents Morse code.
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Samuel Morse invents the first long distance electric telegraph line.Alexander Bain patents the first fax machine.
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186 1United States starts the Pony Express for mail delivery.Coleman Sellers invents the Kinematoscope - a machine that flashed a series of still photographs onto a screen.
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American, Sholes the first successful and modern typewriter.
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1876Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - an office copying machine.Alexander Graham Bell patents the electric telephone.Melvyl Dewey writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books.
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1877Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium.Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion.
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Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again.
