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1901
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This chronology covers -
1901
first electric typewriter, the Blickensderfer
first UK cinema opens
Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
Gillette introduces double-edged safety razor
Marconi sends radio signal across Atlantic
establishment of Australian Commonwealth; PostMaster-General's
16,000 staff account for 90% of federal bureaucracy
22,310 telephone subscribers in Australia (79% in capital
cities)
1902
US Navy installs radio telephones aboard ships
photoelectric scanning used for image transfer
invention of the Teddy Bear
national syndication of comic strips in US begins when
Hearst licenses his strips to
other newspapers
Trans-Pacific telephone cable connects Canada and Australia
1903
London Daily Mirror illustrates only with photographs
Ford Motor Co incorporated
Anderson founds Rockhampton Critic
Schreiber and Aronson found Les
Échos
1904
telephone answering machine
photograph transmitted by wire in Germany
comic book
death of Joseph Pulitzer
double-sided phonograph disc
Jaures founds L'Humanité
1905
invention of the Yellow Pages
juke box
Marcus Loew and Adolph Zukor form Loews
Consolidated theatre chain
Australian Wireless Telegraphy Act regulates local
airwaves
1906
offset press
first classical music radio broadcast
de Forest invents three-element vacuum tube
Dunwoody and Pickard build crystal-&-cat's-whisker
radio
animated cartoon film
Fessenden invents wireless telephony
experimental sound-on-film motion picture
experimental radio transmissions at Queenscliff, Victoria
and Devonport, Tasmania by the Marconi Company
1907
Bell & Howell develop a film projection system
Lumiere brothers invent still colour photography process
electric washing machine - The Thor
United Press International (UPI)
founded
Melbourne to Sydney telephone trunk line
1908
Ford's Model T
electric iron and toaster patented
Mills & Boon founded
Sidgwick & Jackson founded
Christian Science Monitor
founded
1909
radio distress signal saves 1,700 lives after ships collide
first broadcast talk (on votes for women)
pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households
at one per ten people
1910
Amalgamated Wireless Australia (AWA) formed
first live opera broadcast
Harrap founded
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