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1801
to 1850
This chronology covers -
1801
1801 Jacquard invents punch-card control for looms
1803 Sydney Gazette & NSW Advertiser - first
newspaper in Australia
1804 Bonnier founded
1806 carbon paper
1807 camera lucida
1807 John Wiley opens shop
1807 A&C Black founded
1808 Ricordi publishing house founded
1810
1811 Luddites have fun in Nottingham
1812 Churchill Livingstone founded
1813 can opener invented
1814 The Times printed by steam-powered rotary
press
1815 patent for lined notepaper
1817 Berzelius isolates selenium
1817 Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy
& Taxation
1817 Say's Catechism of Political Economy
1818 Butterworth founded
1820
1820 first manufactured calculating machine, de Colmar's
Arithometer
1821 Zürcher Zeitung becomes Neue Zürcher
Zeitung (NZZ)
1822 het Algemeen Handelsblad founded
1823 Babbage builds section of calculating machine
1827 Niépce makes first true photograph
1827 first microphone constructed by Wheatstone
1827 Samuel Morse founds Journal of Commerce
1829 first US patent for a typewriter
1829 Wheatstone uses punched paper tape to store data
1830
1830 number of ads in British newspapers rises to 877,972
pa
1830 Stamp Tax abolished in Australia
1832 Havas news agency established
1833 experimental 1 kilometre-long electric telegraph
in Germany
1834 Babbage conceives Analytical Engine
1834 Routledge founded
1835
1835 Bertelsmann founded
as a religious printer
1835 Agence Havas news and advertising
agency founded
1835 Libel Act in England establishes truth allowed
as defence in defamation for first time in UK
1836 General Register Office in the UK
1837 Wheatstone and Cooke patent electric telegraph
1837 Samuel Morse exhibits electric telegraph in US
1837 world's largest newspaper, New York Sun, has
30 000 circulation
1837 Pitman publishes book on shorthand
1838 Daguerre-Niépce method begins photographic
revolution
1838 Arden and Strode launch weekly Port Phillip Gazette
1838 Ottoman Tariff Convention
1839 Fox Talbot in England produces photographs from negatives
1839 electrotyping (duplicating of printing plates) invented
by Jacobi
1839 electricity used to run printing press
1839 Becquerel notes electrochemical effects of light
1839 Abbott founds Hobart Town Advertiser
1840
1840 first postage stamps sold in Britain
1841 Volney Palmer, first media broker
1841 first type-composing machine used in London
1842
Illustrated London News appears
Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)
appears
Galveston Daily News founded
West, Waddell and Aikenhead found Launceston Examiner
first Christmas card
1843
Economist founded
Macmillan founded
photographic enlarger
Ada Lovelace
publishes Notes about computing
first public telegraph line, from Paddington to Slough
1844
Pearson media group founded
as UK civil engineering contractor
Toronto Globe founded
de Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant founded
Morse's telegraph connects Washington and Baltimore
1845
Straits Times launched
cable laid across English Channel
typewriter ribbon
1846
double cylinder rotary press produces 8 000 sheets per
hour
Melbourne Argus appears
Moreton Bay (Brisbane) Courier
1847
Levi Strauss invents denim jeans
Bakewell develops "copying telegraph"
Uusi Suomi founded
1848
Mill's Principles of Political Economy
Marx's Das Kapital
first WH Smith railway bookstall
Cassell founded
first issue of Chicago Tribune
first US postage stamp
1849
photographic slide
first French postage stamp
Howe patents safety-pin
1850
first machine-made paper bag
Mannheim designs logarithmic slide rule
number of magazines published in US reaches 685
Societe des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique
(SACEM) established in France as first true copyright
collecting society
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