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Media Timeline

1. Media has probably been around for about 1000 years

2. The diamond sutra was printed in 868

3.   In 1593-1661 Ayman Omar mastered ’printing and casting’ technique 

4. In 1472 William Caxton pantented his printing press 

5. William caxton published the Canterbury Tales in 1476 

6. In 1500’s the first text to be published in english was William Tyndale’s new Testament 

7. A newspaper by Johann Carolus the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien published in 1605, is recognized as the world’s first newspaper. However the Dutch Courante uyt italian, Duytslandt,&c. in 1618.

8. The first folio of shakesperes plays was published in 1623 

9.The BBC was first recognised in 1922

10. The first tabloid newspaper was 

11. The first type writer was invented in  1867 by christopher latham

12. 1936 saw Konrad Zuse invent the first computer.

13.There are many different dates for when the first camera was invented however the first camera practical for photography was built by John Strognofe in 1685 and the first First permanent photograph was taken in f 1827 by Joseph Nicephone using wooden box camera.

14. The first gramaphone was invented in 1877 and was first patneted in 1887 by Emile Berliner

15. Sony released the worlds first CD player.

16. The VCR was invented in 1971 along with the dot matrix printer

17. Proposals for the DVD were made in 1992 however were DVD’s were made in 1998

18. Don Juan was the first film with sound , this was made in 1926

19. The first commercial radio station begun in 1973

20.  An advert for Gibbs S R toothpaste was the first advert to be aired on commercial tv, on september 12th 1955

21. The first breakfast tv show was aired in 1952 on NBC

22. Media began – years ago