The Skriker Actor Packet

MODERN TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE
1873 Inspired by a Scientific American article featuring a British attempt at a typing machine,
! Christopher Latham Sholes creates his own: the typewriter.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone telephone.
! Thomas Edison invents the first phonograph.
1879 The first public exhibition of “moving picture.”
! Thomas Edison creates the first light bulb, and the world moves out
! of the dark ages.
! Thomas Edison also creates the first electric motor, and 110 volts
! becomes the future from which so many of our devices take
! for granted today.
1885 Automobile patent granted (internal combustion engine
! powered): Karl Benz, first automobile put into production
1895 Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel
! The first radio signals are sent. Marconi becomes the
! inventor of the modern day radio.
1903 Wright brothers complete first airplane flight.
! First movie - the first projection film with a plot is played
! when the 10 minute movie “The Great Train Robbery” is
! released.
1914 During the First World War, the British army introduces the first tanks.
1917 US troops arrive on the battlefields of Europe, where new technologies have created the
! bloodiest conflict in history. Armored tanks, machine guns, poisonous gas, submarines
! and airplanes will force military commanders to rethink traditional strategies of war.
1922 First successful test of a television broadcast using a Naval Station to broadcast.
1924 In an effort to make capital punishment more humane, the State of Nevada introduces
! death by gas chamber. Convicted murder Gee John takes 6 minutes to die.
1926 The first successful launch of a liquid fueled rocket.
1929 The first regularly scheduled TV Broadcast.
The first public demonstration of a color TV broadcast.
1934 The US Federal Government creates the FCC (Federal Communications
! Commision)
1938 The first FM radio broadcast begins.
1939 The first home television debuts at Worlds Fair.
1941 Computer: Konrad Zuse**
1942 The Manhattan Project, the United States’
! attempt to build the first nuclear, bomb
! begins under the direction of J. Robert
! Oppenheimer.
1945 The first test of an Atomic Bomb
! The first Atomic Bomb is exploded on
! Hiroshima, Japan.