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First email sent (at MI).

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Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use.

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Douglas H.Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs propose a cell-based approach which led to "cellular phones."

The first full-scale commercial television is broadcast.

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Radio station KDKA based in Pittsburgh began the first broadcast.

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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston.

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Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph.

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Claude Chappe establishes the first long distance semaphore telephone line.

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The Chinese develop Woodblock printing.

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The quill is used for writing .

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Hindu-Malayan empires write important legal documents on copper plate scrolls.

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Cai Lun invents paper in the Han Dynasty of China.

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The Phoenicians develop an alphabet, used in the territories of modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.

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The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing.

(Cuneiform)