1898
•  Nikola Tesla files for radio remote control patents.
•  Eldridge R. Johnson patents first mechanical gramophone.

1897
•  German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun constructs the first cathode ray tube scanning  device, a technology still in use today in TVs and computer monitors.
•  British physicist Joseph Thomson discovers the electron.

1896
•  Niagara Falls polyphase AC power plant begins operation.

1895
•  Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives wireless signals in Italy; Alexander S. Popoff accomplishes the same feat in Russia.

1894
•  United States Gramophone Company founded in Washington, D.C.

1893
•  Valdemar Poulson invents the wire recorder, in use until the magnetic tape recorder developed just after World War II.
•  Nikola Tesla describes and demonstrates the basics of radio; later awarded patent supremecy over Marconi.

1891
•  Nikola Tesla invents the Tesla coil, which produces high volt age at high frequency.

1888
•  Emile Berliner applies for a patent on the flat phonograph disc.
•  Thomas Edison and William Dickson make a sound "motion picture" with a phonograph synchronized with a Kinetoscope.
•  Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves.
•  Oberlin Smith describes a magnetic sound recording system, a forerunner of the magnetic tape recording system.
•  Nikola Tesla invents first AC induction motor, AC/DC trans former and polyphase AC system.

1887
•  The first "dry" battery cell, forerunner of the modern battery developed.
• Emile Berliner patents the gramophone, the first record player.1886
•  Westinghouse begins operation of first AC power plant at Buffalo, NY.

1884
•  Paul Nipkow invents a scanning disc for the first mechanical television.

1883
•  Thomas Edison patents the Edison Effect, which later developed into the vacuum tube by Lee deForest.

1882
•  Lars Ericsson invents the telephone handset with a combined microphone and earpiece.

1879
•  Thomas Edison invents incandescent light bulb.

1877
•  Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
•  French Poet Charles Cros suggests recording sound on flat disc.

1876
•  Alexander Graham Bell receives a U.S. patent for the telephone.

1872
•  Thomas Edison patents an electronic typewriter, the prototype for later teletype machines.

1863
•  Giovanni Caselli receives a U.S. patent for the fax machine based on Bain’s ideas called the "pantelegraph." Service between Paris and Lyons, France, operates between 1865 and 1870, but the Franco-Prussian War ends the experiment.

1857
•  French Scientist Leon Scott de Martinville demonstrates rudimentary sound recording technology using soot-covered paper cylinders.

1844
•  Samuel F.B.Morse sends the telegraph message "What hath God wrought?"

1840
•  Alexander Bain proposes a fax machine that uses synchronized pendulums to scan an image at the transmitting end and send electrical impulses to a matching pendulum at the receiving end to reconstruct the image. The device, however, not developed.

1832
•  Babbage conceives the first computer, the analytical engine, a mechanical calculating machine driven by external instructions akin to modern-day software. He never builds it.

1831
•  Michael Faraday converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

1822
•  Charles Babbage develops the Difference Engine, the first – albeit enormous – calculator.

1799
•  Alexandra Volta invents the first battery.

1752
•  Benjamin Franklin demonstrates lightning is electricity.