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1941
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This chronology covers -
1941
Citizen Kane
stereo installed in Moscow movie theater
FCC sets US TV standards
first colour TV commercial, for Bulova watches
microwave transmission
Zuse's Z3 computer
Marshall Field III founds
Chicago Sun
1942
Academic Press founded
Lamarr & Antheil patent for secure "spread spectrum"
communications
Kodacolour process produces the colour print
1943
closure of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
1944
Harvard's Mark I, first digital computer
IBM offers typewriter with proportional spacing
first high-fidelity recordings
von Neumann & Morgenstern's Theory of Games &
Economic Behavior
Marshall Field III buys Simon
& Schuster and Pocket Books
Hubert Beuve-Mery founds Le
Monde
1945
Clarke describes geosynchronous communication satellites
Bush's 'Memex' article
est. 10,000 television sets in US
establishment of Ecole Nationale d'Administration
1946
6,500 television receivers sold in US
Lanham Act in US
Dalmia acquires Bennett Coleman
(Times of India)
term 'bit' used for first time by John Tukey
first network tv soap opera
jukeboxes go into mass production
ENIAC
makes 5,000 additions in one second
automobile radio telephones connect to US phone network
Love Me Sailor censorship trial in Australia
Axel Springer founds Nordwestdeutsche
Hefte and Hör Zu magazine
Rupert Hart-Davis founded
1946 Goodson-Todman Productions
founded
over 200 new mass-oriented magazines launched in US
IBM markets 603 electronic tabulator
Universal Pictures merges with International Pictures
as Universal International
1947
invention of transistor
zoom lens used in US baseball world series TV
holography
'Loi Bichet' in France
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) becomes UN
agency
1948
Claude Shannon's
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Wiener's Cybernetics
invention of LP record and Polaroid camera
News of the World sells 8 million copies in UK
amalgamation of Chicago Daily Times and Sun
as Sun-Times
Holtzbrinck founded
Brost buys licence for Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
(WAZ)
establishment of Australian Broadcasting Control Board
US weekly cinema population peaks at 90 million
IBM markets 604 tabulator
1949
birth of US network TV
disposable syringe invented in Australia
RCA introduces 45 rpm record
regional use of cable television in US
first commercial computer
magnetic core computer memory
Australian CSIRAC computer perform its first controlled
program
The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy initiate
tv Western genre
Weidenfeld & Nicolson founded
Thames & Hudson founded
launch of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
1950
Turing's
Computing Machinery & Intelligence
Remington-Rand acquires Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp
NBC launches Today show and The Adventures of
Superman (faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap
tall buildings etc)
Phonevision, first pay-per-view service
AC Nielsen's Audimeters start to track TV viewing
changeable typewriter typefaces in use
first credit card - Diners Club
first Bertelsmann book club
formed
Victor Civita forms Editora Abril
Paul Hamlyn founded
RC Hoiles founds Freedom Newspapers
European Broadcasting Union formed
Tindle founded
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