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1851
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1851
first edition of New York Times
Hong Xuiquan launches Taiping Rebellion
Archer invents wet-plate photography
patent for Singer sewing machine
first Canadian stamp
Reuters established
1853
envelopes made by paper folding machine
establishment of Compagnie Générale des Eaux, precursor
of Vivendi
1854
telegraph used in Crimean War
Wheatstone invents Playfair cipher
1854 Abbott, Syme and Thomson launch Diggers Advocate
Boole's Laws of Thought
first Australian telegraph line (Melbourne to Williamstown)
Carte-de-visite process simplifies photography
1855
compulsory prepayment of postage in US
Hughes' printing telegraph
pre-payment of letters made compulsory in US
Maury's The Physical Geography of the Sea
registered letters enter service in US
1856
Poitevan develops photolithography
blotting paper replaces sand boxes
machine-folding of newspapers
Symes buy The Age
1858
failure of first transatlantic telegraph service
eraser fitted to end of pencil
first aerial photograph
Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney linked by telegraph
1859
development of wide-angle camera lens
cable across Bass Strait
Darwin's The Origin of Species
Mill's On Liberty
Leopold Sonnemann launches Frankfurter
Zeitung
Great Moral History of Port Curtis, Australia's
first comic
1860
Sholes builds functional typewriter
Schibsted launches Aftenposten
1861
end of Pony Express in US
first colour photography
1862
drawing is sent over a wire by Caselli
first US national paper money
1863
uniform postage rates in US
rollerskates invented
1865
Atlantic cable links US and Europe
Nokia established as pulp and paper mill
1866
Holt founded
1867
Cahalan invents stock ticker
1868
writing machine first called a 'Type-Writer'
1869
establishment of N W Ayer, first US ad agency
Boyce founds Manning (River) Times
UK private telegraph companies nationalised
transcontinental railway completed in US
Suez Canal
1870
stock ticker used by Wall Street
first British postcard devised by Anthony Trollope
1871
Bates establishes first ad agency offering "creative services"
Hoe perfects continuous roll press
Boyce founds Tenterfield Star
first newspaper printing of pictures (using halftone)
Paris Commune
Rudolf Mosse founds Berliner
Tageblat
1872
simultaneous transmission from both ends of a telegraph
wire
US$1 million budget for advertising Lydia Pinkham's Pink
Pills
Overland Telegraph Line links Melbourne to Darwin, with
connection to Europe
1873
D'Alzon founds Bonne Presse and
Pelerin
US 'Comstock Act' criminalises use of mail for distributing
any 'obscene, lewd or lascivious book or other publication
of indecent character'
illustrated daily newspaper appears in New York
Maxwell publishes theory of radio waves
Dewey develops Dewey Decimal System for Amherst College
Library
Remington starts manufacturing Sholes' typewriters
Browne, Lukin and Thornton's Brisbane Newspaper Co. buys
Brisbane Courier and Queenslander for
£15,000
typewriters get the QWERTY pseudo-scientific keyboard
Parmalee invents automatic fire sprinklers
Mith and May note photoconductivity of selenium
1874
Universal Postal Union (UPU) formed
Yomiuri Shimbun founded
1875
mimeograph invented by Edison
UK Trade Marks Registration Act establishes Trade
Marks Registry
John Wiley & Son incorporated
1875 Collier & Son founded
1876
Bell invents telephone
Corriere della Sera founded
Chugai bukka shinpo (later Nikkei Shimbun)
founded
1877
Washington Post founded
Leopold Ullstein founds Ullstein
publishing house
Charles Cros and Thomas Edison invent phonograph
first commercial telephone is introduced
Algernon Borthwick (later
Lord Glenesk) buys London Morning Post
1878
Edweard Muybridge photographs horse in motion
Scripps newspaper group founded
forerunner of Egmont formed
cathode ray tube invented by Crookes
microphone invented
telephone directories are issued
full page newspaper ads
dry-plate photography
1879
Benday process assists newspaper illustration
first telephone service in Australia connects Melbourne
and South Melbourne offices of Robinson Brothers
Sydney Daily Telegraph founded by Wynne, Casey,
Mackay, Carey and Sands
Asahi Shimbun founded
Dahl's 'sulfate' method for practical manufacture of paper
from wood pulp
Frege proposes notational system for mechanical reasoning
1880
first photos in newspapers using halftones
Edison and Swan invent electric light
first parcel post
US-owned telephone companies in UK merge to form United
Telephone Company (later National Telephone Co)
first Australian telephone exchange opened in Melbourne
telecommunications company Bell
Canada established
Ricordi buys Francesco Lucca publishing house
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