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1921
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1921
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
de Volkskrant founded
Western Union begins wirephoto service
soap powder for washing machines
first hamburger chain, White Castle
Thorsten Veblen's The
Engineers & the Price System
1922
UK BBC formed as commercial radio
broadcaster
UFA film company consolidated
Technicolour introduces two-colour process for movies
average US weekly movie attendance is 40 million (1.56
per household)
first film with optical sound track produced by UFA
first radio advertisement in USA, US$100 for ten minutes
first 3-D movie
Dwiggins coins term 'graphic design'
Nanook of the North, first documentary
first portable radio in US
PCF gains control of L'Humanité
1923
Sydney to Brisbane telephone trunk line
Disneys found film studio in
Hollywood
electric guitar
first commercial radio broadcasting in Australia
Book-of-the-Month Club founded
Phaidon founded
Zworykin's electronic iconoscope camera and kinescope
display
A C Nielsen founded
Young & Rubicam founded
16mm nonflammable film
Kodak introduces home movie equipment
Time magazine
Edward Bernays writes Crystallizing Public Opinion
1924
Marlboro is launched, targeted at women with the line
'Mild as May'
invention of spiral binding for notebooks
invention of Vegemite
The Eveready Hour is first sponsored radio program
in US
IBM incorporated
Music Corporation of America (MCA) founded
2.5 million radio sets in the US
MacFadden launches New York
Evening Graphic
Coolidge spends US$120,000 on radio time in first radio
presidential campaign
Loew buys Metro Pictures
Bathursts sell Morning Post to Duke of Northumberland
consortium
1925
Leica 35 mm camera
commercial picture facsimile radio service across the
US
electric phonograph
wide-screen film
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
AT&T establishes Bell Labs
Random House founded
Faber & Gwyer founded
Marinho takes control of O
Globo newspaper
1926
General Electric and Westinghouse form Radio Corporation
of America (RCA)
Belo founded
Sheed & Ward founded
UK government nationalises BBC
Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) - Japan
Broadcasting Corporation founded
first radio jingle: Wheaties
Paul Block acquires Toledo Blade
for US$4.5m
commercial picture facsimile radio service across Atlantic
Baird demonstrates electro-mechanical TV system
Lamar buys Baton Rouge Poster
Advertising Co.
first 16mm movie is shot in the US
NBC radio network
Bell Labs transmit film by television
Aniline printing developed
Ridder buys Journal of Commerce
Manchester Boddy launches Los Angeles Daily News
Book-of-the-Month Club founded by Harry Scherman
1927
NBC begins two radio networks
Jolson's The Jazz Singer is the first popular "talkie"
Lang's Metropolis
Movietone offers sound newsreels
US Radio Act declares public ownership of the airwaves
and establishes federal Radio Commission
Ziff-Davis founded
Technicolor
JVC formed
Remington Rand formed
Gollancz founded
1928
US broadcasters agree to ban radio ads during 'family
hour'
Baird demonstrates colour TV on electro-mechanical system
first Mickey Mouse cartoon
Bernays' Propaganda
teletype machine
establishment of Finanz und Wirtschaft (FuW)
Baird beams TV image from UK to US
first scheduled television broadcasts in US
IBM adopts 80-column punched card
United Independent Broadcasters restructured as Columbia
Broadcasting System (CBS)
1929
Associated Newspapers formed
in Australia through merger of Samuel Bennett with Denison's
Sun Newspapers
Bonython's Adelaide Advertiser group sold for for £1.25m
Cisneros founded
Decca records founded in UK
RKO founded
Nyquist Theorem
telegraph ticker sends 500 characters per minute
ship passengers can phone relatives ashore
brokers watch stock prices on an automated electric board
Sydney-Melbourne picturegram service launched
car radio invented
first magnetic sound recording on plastic tape
first television studio built in London
Variety reports that 'Wall Street Lays An Egg'
Bell Labs transmits stills in colour by mechanical scanning
Zworykin's cathode-ray tube "kinescope" receiver, 60 scan
lines
Baird's tv transmissions using BBC radio towers during
off hours
est. 57 million miles flown on scheduled routes (with
434,00 passengers)
Aw Boon Haw launches Sin
Chew Jit Poh in Singapore
1930
Sidney & Cecil Bernstein open Granada Cinema
Experimental 30-line TV transmissions in the UK
photo flashbulbs replace flash powder
IG Farben buys 75% of Frankfurter Nachtrichten
first use of TV for advertising via closed circuit in
UK and US
Lowell Thomas comperes first regular US network newscast
Bush's differential analyzer
AT&T trials picture telephone
Melbourne to Perth telephone trunk line
London to Melbourne telephone service
Curtis buys Philadelphia Inquirer
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