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Media formats
- FilmIn 1833, a German physicist named Joseph Plateau unveiled the stroboscopic disc to an audience in Paris. This device, also known as the phénakisticope, spun…
- RadioHeinrich Hertz stood in a laboratory on the 11th of November 1886. He held a primitive spark-gap transmitter that generated invisible waves.
- PodcastThe word podcast first appeared in print on the 1st of February 2004. Ben Hammersley wrote an article for The Guardian newspaper that week while searching…
- BookArchaeologists have uncovered Jiahu symbols inscribed onto bones and tortoise shells in graves that are 8,600 years old.
- TelevisionThe word television first appeared in print on the 24th of August 1900. A Russian scientist named Constantin Perskyi used it during a paper presentation at…