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Chronologies
A History of Modern Communications, Computing and Media
This is by far the most comprehensive site covering this subject - confirmed at this address 09/00
Plus: '2500 Years of Communications History'
Part 1. 500 BC - 1899 AD
Part 2. 1900 to the present
Archiving
The IEE Archives: The Special Colls. Manuscripts - by Tim Procter
Media Resources Preservation - by Dr. Margaret S. Child
The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval - by Michael Lesk
Cinema
Magic Machines - from the Camera Obscura to the Cinematographe
Timeline
Antiquity to 1825 |
1826 to 1875 |
1876 to 1890 |
1891 to 1895 |
1896 to 1900
Associated sites developed from the above pages
CAMERA_OBSCURA.html
CINEORAMA.html - soon
HORNORS_COLOSSEUM.html (Colisseum) - soon
CYCLORAMA.html
DIORAMA.html
DRAWING_MACHINES.html
MAGIC_LANTERNS.html
MAREORAMA.html - soon
PANORAMA.html
PEEP_SHOW.html
PHANTASMAGORIE.html
WYLDS_GREAT_GLOBE.html - soon
VUE_D_OPTIQUE.html
Selected articles from the Journal of the JSMPE and JSMPTE - Index
Louis Le Prince - by by E. Kilburn Scott
The Latham's Role in Cinema History - 1894-96 - by Terry Ramsaye
The Story of Etienne-Gaspard Robert, 'Robertson' - Ed., by Bruce Sterling
The Complete History Of The Discovery of Cinematography - by Paul T. Burns
The Motion Picture - by Arthur Knight
The Inventors in Cinema - from Inventors World Magazine
A History of the Motion Pictures - A Time Line
The Edison 22mm 'Home' Kinetoscope
Edison's Kinetograph
Magic Lanterns c.1650 - c.1930
Lantern Slides - A selection of German origin
One Hundred Years of Movie-Making - NPR, USA
A History of Cinematography in Australia
Film Cultura - A History of Cinema from Hungary
The Coming of the Cinema - by Stephen Bottomore
A History of Motion Pictures - by Vito Russo
From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd - by Erkki Huhtamo
Motion Pictures - A History
Moving Pictures That Talk - Pt 1: How is it Possible? - by Mark Ulano
Moving Pictures That Talk - Pt 2: ...a Child of the Phonograph - by Mark Ulano
Moving Pictures That Talk - Pt 3: How You Gonna' Keep 'Em....? - by Mark Ulano
Moving Pictures That Talk - Pt 4: ...their own eyes and ears - by Mark Ulano
The Movies Begin - by Geoffrey O'Brien
Persistence of Vision - by Stephen Herbert
From Vintage Film to Betacam - by Alan D. Kattelle
Dead Media - Items from the 'Dead Media Project' by Bruce Sterling
The Dead Media Web Site - ALWAYS refer here first
The following are captured sites should the primary sources fail
Dead Media Home
The Dead Media Proposal - by Bruce Sterling
A reply to the proposal - by Pete Skerys and Andy Lonsdale
A 'Dead Media' Chronology - by Andy Lonsdale
A Dead Media Master List - edited to be relevent to this project
The Life and Death of Media - by Bruce Sterling
Magnetism, Electricity and Electronics
Investigations with Electricity and Magnetism: 1732 - 1856
A Century Of Electricals: 1884 - 1984
The Thermionic Valve
Incandescent lamps plus, the AC / DC Debate
The Voltaic Pile - c.1800
An Introduction To Batteries - The Voltaic Pile to the Sealed Lead Battery
Radio Tubes and Photoelectric Cells - by Eric J Lerner
Booklist - IEE Books: History of Technology Series ( Series Editor: Dr. B. Bowers )
Optics and Photography
Investigations with Light: 1704 - 1887
A Chronology of Vision Research: 1600 - 1960
The First Lenses
Pinhole Photography: History, Images, Cameras, Formulas - By Jon Grepstad
Make a Pinhole Camera - The San Francisco Exploratorium
Radio
Communications Pioneers Biographical Dictionary - by Ted Uzzle
The New Rule of Wireless- by George Gilder
Radio: The Roots of Broadcasting by Jerry Whitaker
From Obscurity to Enigma: Oliver Heaviside - by I. Yavetz
Broadcasting and the Public in Australia - by Bob Hope-Hume
History of Community Radio - by Dr. Jeff Langdon
A 'Selective' Razor Blade Crystal Radio
A 'Sensitive' Crystal Radio
A WW II 'Foxhole Radio' - by Lance Borden
Radio is 75 ...and still coming in, loud and clear - by Emily Mitchell
The Art of Radio - Don't look now but I can't see the audience !
The Development of Radio Technology - from Maxwell to the Microchip
Radio and Television Broadcasting - by Russell Neuman
Radio and Television Production - Techniques and Borrowings
Radio - The First 50 Years - by Eric J Lerner
The History of Radio in Australia - by Dr. Jeff Langdon
The Electronic Era - When? Where? Who? How? Why?
Who actually invented radio ? - Marconi's Broadcasting Forefathers
Radio's Version of "Who's on First?" - by Jeff Miller
Just who did invent radio and what was the first station? - by B. Eric Rhoads
The 'Radio Music Box' - David Sarnoff
Vintage Radio (Restoration) - by Marty Knight
Radio Broadcasting in the USA: 1895 - 1947 Part 1 - by Jeff Miller
Radio Broadcasting in the USA: 1895 - 1947 Part 2 - by Jeff Miller
AM Radio in the USA: 1899-1958 - by Jeff Miller
Early Radio in the USA: The Story of Westinghouse Electric - by George Douglas
Radio on the Day America Entered and Ended WWII - by Joseph Gallant
The Meccano Crystal Radio Receiving Set - Frank Hornby goes radio-mad...
Radio Propaganda
Tokyo Rose - "Orphan Ann" ("Tokyo Rose")
Tokyo Rose - Sayonara, "Tokyo Rose" Hello Again, "Orphan Ann"
Lord Haw Haw - William Joyce
Hanoi Hannah - Trinh Thi Ngo
The Art of Recording
The Decca Tree
Recording on Wire, Magnetic Tape and Film
A Short History of Recording - In French
A Chronology of Magnetic Recording - by David Morton
The Development of Electromagnetic Tape Recording: 1898 - 1948
A Chronology of Phonograph and Mechanical Recording Technology- by David Morton
Magnetic Recording Timeline - From Nagra (Kudelski)
A Chronology of Optical Recording Technology - by David Morton
A Chronology of Magnetic Recording - by Steve Schoenherr
The Wire Recorder: A Brief History - by David Morton
Recording on Wire and Steel Ribbon - The Blattner and Stille Magnetic Audio Recorders
The Telegraphone and the Movies - Journal of the SMPTE
The Telegraphone and the Lusitania - by Chris Bacon
The Gramophone - by Friedrich Kittler
Sound Recording at The BBC - Drama on Radio 4 - UK
The Magic of Magnetic Tape - by Don Rushin
The US Development of the Tape Recorder - by John (Jack) T. Mullin
Radio Transcriptions: A History of Radio Broadcast Recordings - by Michael Biel
Minifon, An Early Portable Dictating Machine - by David Morton
Telephony and Telegraphy
Communications Pioneers Biographical Dictionary - by Ted Uzzle
The Telegraph, the Internet's Taproot - by Jonathan Yardley
The Morse Telegraph of 1844 based on pages from Scientific American
The Story of the Telegraph - by ~lula
The Beginnings of Telegraphy - by ~jwittich
What_Hath_God_Wrought
Anglo-Boer War set the stage for military wireless telegraphy - by Duncan C. Baker
Communication - An Introduction
The Fax Boom that came a Century Late - by Lars Fimmerstad
A History of Telegraphy - by Angelo Brunero, Translated by Andrea Valori
A History of the Telephone - by Dawne M. Flammger
Facsimile - by Donald G. Fink
The Sounds of a Spark Transmitter: Telegraphy and Telephony - by John S. Belrose
The Radio Telephone - by Megan Gallagher
Telecommunications - by Donna Greaves Smith
The Telephone: The First Hundred Years - by John Brooks
Telecommunications: Messages from afar - New discoveries of past centuries
This Distant Image - The History of the Facsimile
Television
Communications Pioneers Biographical Dictionary - by Ted Uzzle
What Hope for Real Television - the technology of television, 1928
What Hope for Real Television - the article matching the above images
The Revolution of Television - by Jerry Whitaker
The Development of Television Technology - A Tale of Two Systems
The Art of Television - Visual Radio or Diluted Cinema ?
Television - by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin and Leonard Feldman
The Development of Television Technology - Television Camera Tubes
The Cathode Ray Tube: 1855 - 1896
The History and Technology of Television
Early Television - by Martin Clifford
Television - by William H. Dunlap, Stan Opotowsky
Facts and Firsts - The Early Days of Television
History of Television Technology - by Brad Fortner
The Image Orthicon (Television Camera) Tube
Radio and Television Production - Techniques and Borrowings
HDTV: An Historical Perspective - by Corey P. Carbonara
Television in the USA: 1875-1970 - by Jeff Miller
Television - by William H. Dunlap and Stan Opotowsky
Mechanical Television - by Richard Kadrey
The Benham Disk
Television (specifically - John Logie Baird)
TV is Dead. Long Live TV - by Andrew Chitty
The Man Who Invented TV - by Jeremy Taylor
John Logie Baird - a biography
John Logie Baird - by Will Annett
Early / Mechanical Television Systems - by Richard Kadrey
Stereoscopic Television - by R. F. Tiltman
Baird in America - by Malcolm H. I. Baird
Invisible Light - Infra Red Television in 1926
Visioneer: John Logie Baird and Mechanical Televison - by Trevor Blake
Phonovision
Eye of the World - Part 1 - by Adrian R. Hills
Eye of the World - Part 2 - by Malcolm H. I. Baird
Eye of the World - Part 3 - Iain Baird interviewed by Gerald Pratley
Seeing by Wireless - by Ray Herbert
Television Choices - by Trevor Worthy
Plus: selected essays from the 'Engines of Our Ingenuity' Series
The Telegraph
Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer
The Camera Obscura
Nicola Tesla
Crystal Sets
Technology and Communication
Radio Days
Frankin's Electricity
William Gilbert
Michael Faraday
Using the Telephone
Semaphore Telegraphy
Maxwell and Faraday
The Mind of Faraday
Who Invented the Telephone?
Rysselberghe's Telephone
Edwin Armstrong & FM
Oliver Heaviside
Alexander Graham Bell
Bush's Analog Prediction
Stereoscope
Marey and Muybridge
Physionotrace
The Crystal Palace
Hill's Color Photography
Plus: The Telstra 'Communications' Series
Connecting a Continent - Early Telecommunications in Australia
From Dots to Data - The Story of Digital Transmission and Data Communication
This Distant Image - A History of the Facsimile
Telecommunications - Messages from Afar
Linking a Nation - The Story of Long Distance Communications
This Busy Ray - The Story of Communication by Light Beam
The Switching Place - The Story of Telephone Exchanges
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