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1900s 1908 • First double-sided records. 1907 • Boris Rosing in Russia and A.A. Campbell Swinton in England simultaneously develop image reproduction methods using electromagnetic scanning. • Victrola phonograph, gramophone with built--in instead of exposed horn, introduced. 1906 • On Christmas Eve, Fessenden transmits voice and music via AM radio. 1904 • John Ambrose Fleming files a patent for the vacuum tube. 1903 • Enrico Caruso recordings on Victor's Red Seal Records label featuring "His Master's Voice" logo go on sale. 1902 • Arthur Korn develops the first practical fax machine using selenium cells to deconstruct pictures into components, then reconstructs them at the receiving end. • George Blickensderfer invents the first practical electric typewriter. • First record disc-pressing plant opens. 1901 • Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic wireless telegraph message. 1900 • Professor Reginald A. Fessenden discovers AM radio. • Constantin Perskyi coins the word "television." • Two German scientists, Johann Elster and Hans Geitel, invent the photoelectric cell. • Eldridge R. Johnson founds Consolidated Talking Machine Company, changed to Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901, predecessor of JVC and RCA, in Camden, N.J. Johnson registers "His Master's Voice" trademark logo featuring "Nipper." |
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