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1911
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1911
UK and Australian Copyright
Acts provide protection for author's lifetime plus 50
years
American Tobacco Company controls 92% of world's tobacco
business, just a bit more than Microsoft's share of the
browser market in early 2001
Photoplay magazine launched - first movie fan magazine
and "genesis of celebrity culture"
nationalisation of National Telephone Co in UK
1912
WW Astor and WT Stead die in
the Titanic
Mises' The Theory of Money & Credit
US passes law to control radio stations
first neon sign
first airmail
first automatic telephone exchange in Australia
1913
portable phonograph
est one-third of British households own a phonograph
first newspaper crossword puzzle
1914
radio message is sent to an airplane
35mm still camera
American Audit Bureau of Circulations formed
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers)
founded
Allen & Unwin founded
first transcontinental telephone call in US
Melbourne to Adelaide telephone trunk
1915
wireless radio service connects US and Japan
radio-telephone carries speech across Atlantic
Birth of a Nation
electric loudspeaker
1916
United Newspapers formed in UK
Hugenberg gains control of Scherl
Sarnoff envisages radio as "a household
utility"
cameras get optical rangefinders
Smith, Elder & Co. assets acquired by John Murray
radios get tuners
US postal inspectors solve last known stagecoach robbery
1917
photocomposition begins
Wente's condenser microphone
Capek uses term "robot" in Opilek
1915
first regular airmail service: Washington to New York
Beaverbrook founds Sunday
Express
first direct radio message from UK to Australia received
at AWA's Wahroonga facility
1919
rotary dial telephones
Eccles & Jordan's flip-flop circuit
shortwave radio
est. 1 million miles flown on scheduled routes (with 7,500
passengers)
Joseph Medill Patterson founds New York Illustrated
Daily News
Crowell Publishing Company buys
Colliers
1920
Pearson-controlled Westminister
Press buys UK provincial newspaper chains
merger of Agence Havas and Société
Générale des Annonces advertising agency
Heinemann founded
Nazi Party buys Franz Eher Verlag
and Völkischer Beobachter
first broadcasting stations opened
KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts first scheduled radio programs
first US transcontinental airmail
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