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1931
commercial teletype service
electronic TV broadcasts in Los Angeles and Moscow
exposure meters on sale to photographers
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
EMI formed in UK
incorporation of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion
(CLR)
Crossley system for rating size of radio program audiences
1932
General Electric divests RCA
first colour photo in a British newspaper, The Times
Times uses Morrison's new Times Roman typeface
Kodak introduces 8 mm film for home movies
stereophonic sound in a motion picture, Gance's Napoleon
zoom lens invented
NBC and CBS allow prices to be mentioned in radio commercials
International Telecommunications Union
Berle & Means' The Modern Corporation & Private
Property
1933
first Mars bar
Edwin Armstrong invents FM
singing telegrams
Homer Capehart sells Simplex record changer to Wurlitzer
Co as basis for jukebox
Ullstein and Mosse families
ousted from media groups in Germany
Dreft, first household detergent
stereo phonograph records
Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)
established
1934
US Communications Act of 1934 creates Federal Communications
Commission
drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey
Associated Press starts wirephoto service
first overseas radiophoto published in Australian newspapers
first mobile television truck captures Nazi rally
3-colour Technicolor used in live action film
half US homes have radios
Muzak founded
Mutual Broadcasting System founded in US
1935
audio tape recorders on sale in Germany
IBM markets electric typewriter
IBM markets 601 tabulator
first Kit Kat in UK
first Penguin paperback
Zalman Schocken acquires Ha'aretz
Michael Joseph founded
all-electronic VHF television
Eastman-Kodak develops Kodachrome colour film
1936
Berlin Olympics are televised closed circuit
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
coaxial cable connects New York to Philadelphia
Turing
describes a general purpose computer
Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction
Life launched
Packers buy Sydney Daily Telegraph from Associated
Newspapers
Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest &
Money
1937
Turing's On Computable Numbers introduces Turing
machine
NBC sends mobile TV truck onto New York streets
Hindenburg crash broadcast coast to coast in US
Greater Union Theatres (GU) group
in Australia
photocopier invented by Carlson
Snow White is first feature-length cartoon
1938
Baird demonstrates live TV in colour
Biro brothers invent ballpoint pen
CBS World News Roundup ushers in modern newscasting
radio surpasses magazines as a source of ad revenue in
US
U Penn plays first publicly televised game of US football
War of the Worlds broadcast frightens chattering
classes
Hulton Picture Library founded
as archive for Picture Post magazine
Sing Tao founded in Hong Kong
1939
Cox buys The Atlanta Journal
Atanasoff-Berry Computer, first electronic digital computer
300,000 jukeboxes in US
New York World's Fair shows television to public
first regular TV ads
radio in 75% of German households
Hewlett-Packard
1940
Disney's Fantasia
introduces stereo sound
CBS demonstrates color television in New York
80% of US homes have radio
Wilson's To the Finland Station
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