| A | B |
|---|
| Cavepeople Language | Grunts and Groans |
| Beginning of Mass Communication | Printing Press |
| clay tablet written records | Babylonians |
| Egyptian paper discovery | Papyrus |
| First Book | Diamond Sutra |
| Europe's paper contribution | Parchment |
| 10-day communication | Pony Express |
| Printing Press Inventor | Gutenberg |
| Feature of Printing Press | Moveable Type |
| Before Printing Press | Scribes |
| wired written communication | telegraph |
| Developed by inventor for communication | Morse Code |
| telegraph message | telegram |
| voice on west coast | telephone |
| modern film inventor | George Eastman |
| kinetoscope inventor | Thomas Edison |
| "The Great Train Robbery" | first film |
| "wireless telegraphy" | radio |
| 1st radio station | KDKA |
| controls licensing | FCC |
| 1st Network | NBC |
| Formed from Blue Network | ABC |
| 1st Soap Opera | "Guiding Light" |
| Mass Panic | "War of the Worlds" |
| News, Talk, Music, etc. | Format |
| continuous "stream" | Internet Radio |
| same radio station from Philly to Boston | Satellite Radio |
| Father of the TV | Philo Farnsworth |
| President of RCA during the time Philo was trying to patent TV | David Sarnoff |
| Russian immigrant engineer who was competing with Philo. He was working for Westinghouse labs/RCA | Vladimir Zworkyn |
| Live television begins to evolve. People start buying TV sets in mass | 1950's Television |
| The Beginning of Videotaping TV shows for later playback | 1960's Television |
| Known for the expansive use of computers for graphics thanks to the movie Star Wars | 1980's Television |
| Video home system created by JVC (1974) | VHS |
| Digital era CDs and DVDs invented | 1990's Television |
| HDTV format standardized | 2000's Television |
| End of Analog Television | February 17, 2009 |
| First electronically edited television show | Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In |
| First 3-Camera Show | I Love Lucy |
| Changed television news | CNN |
