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1881
to 1900
This chronology covers -
- 1883
- 1886
- 1889
- 1892
- 1895
- 1897
- 1899
1882
Married Womens' Property Act in UK
first wirephotos
first national US ad (by P&G for Ivory soap)
1883
Stillwell invents brown paper bag
Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (AEG)
founded by Emil Rathenau, licences Edison's electrical
patents
Curtis founds Ladies' Home
Journal
August Scherl founds
Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger
1884
Vort Arbeid newspaper founded
early version of television technology - Nipkow scanning
disk
long distance telephone calls
electric tabulator
Waterman's fountain pen
1885
AT&T formed
cylinder-based dictating machines
coated photo printing paper made by Eastman
1886
Mergenthaler's linotype machine
Sears Roebuck, forerunner of Amazon.com, starts mail-order
business
first Berne Copyright
Convention
Coca-Cola syrup invented
Hollerith forms Tabulating Machine Company
1887
est. 5,400 cash registers in US (increases to 16,900 in
1890)
celluloid film
US Interstate Commerce Act
Berliner
patents phonographic disk
Comptometer multi-function adding machine is manufactured
Bodley Head founded
dynamite invented
Hutchinson founded
Winfrey buys Spalding Guardian
1888
Kodak box camera
Hertz proves existence of radio waves
coin-operated public telephone
incorporation of Berner Tagblatt
J M Dent founded
Burroughs patents adding machine
1889
Hollerith's
punch card machine used in US census
automatic telephone exchange
1890
AB Dick markets mimeograph
New York Phonograph Co opens first purpose-built recording
studio
zipper
rotogravure press
Constable founded
1891
telephoto lens is attached to the camera
first telephone link between London & Paris
International Copyright Convention
Koninklijke Philips (Philips)
founded by Gerard Philips as light globe manufacturer
1892
Edison and Dickson invent peep-show Kinetoscope
4-colour rotary press
portable typewriters
Herman Ridder buys New York Staats-Zeitung
1893
Coca-Cola trademark registered
WH Cowles acquires Spokesman-Review
Wilhelm Girardet & Co launches Zurich Tages-Anzeiger
1894
Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
Editions Salabert founded
1895
Lumière Bros invent Cinématograph
Friese-Greene invents phototypesetting
Kellogg's Corn Flakes
first Times Atlas of the World
1896
first edition of Daily Mail
Henry Ford builds Quadricycle
John Norton gains control of
Sydney Truth
Underwood model permits typists to see what they are typing
X-ray photography invented
first US cinema opens
Alden Blethen buys Seattle Times
1897
Braun invents cathode-ray tube
WH Cowles acquires Spokane Chronicle
General Electric creates corporate publicity department
Curtis launches Saturday Evening Post
Robert Collier revamps Collier's
Weekly
1898
photographs taken by artificial light
New York State passes law against misleading advertising
Duckworth founded
Kauppalehti daily founded
James M Cox buys Dayton Evening
News
1899
loudspeaker is invented
magnetic sound recording
American Marconi Company (forerunner of RCA)
Burroughs Adding Machine Company founded
Johan Vaaler invents paperclip
Thorsten Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class
Kraus launches Die Fackel
1900
Kodak Brownie
est. 1.4 million telephones, 8,000 registered automobiles
and 24 million electric light bulbs in US
'television' coined in France
price of 'chemical' wood pulp reaches US$36 per tonne,
down from US$344 per tonne in 1866
130,000 horses working in Manhattan
6,000 accountants in England
'His Master's Voice' (HMV) registered
as trademark in Britain
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