Multimedia - American Heritage Dictionary defines it as “the combined use of several media, such as movies, slides, music, and lighting, especially for the purpose of education or entertainment.

Before Digitization

1500,-13,000 BC Prehistoric Cave Paintings

3500 BC Roots of Western music developed in Mesopotamia.

3,000 BC Chinese Shadow Puppets

65 BC Roman Poet Lucretius discovers Persistance of Vision. The Phenomenon proved 230 years later by Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy, allows the eye to see a series of rapid still as one movin image... the future basis for animation and motion pictures.

1435 Leone Alberti writes Della Pictura... rules on how to draw 3D images on 2D planes (perspective)

1450 Johan Gutenberg invents movable type, allowing MASS production of documents.

1702 The first English daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, begins publication.

1771 English Parliament allows journalists to cover its proceedings.

1776 American Independence

1791 American Constitution grants freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

1837 Morse... the telegraph

1837 Louis Daguerre invents the daguerrotype... Photos!

1841 Negative-positive photo process invented.

1851 Sir David Brewster invents Stereoscope... Quieen Victoria is amused and it becomes very popular (think Viewmaster)

1858 Europe and North America are first linked by telegraph cable. Fast communication!

1876 Braham Bell makes first phone call.

1877 Edison invents the Phonograph... also the frist record (Mary had a little lamb)

1878 Germans and Americans invent the frist dynamic microphone.

1879 Edison invents light bulb.

1880 Hollerith invents a machine that reads perforated cards.

1881 Invention of the halftone printing process.

1888 Estman introduces Kodak camera and roll of film.

1888 Edison and another guy invent the Kinetograph... first motion picture camera...

1889 Kinetoscope

1889 Kinetograph which sincronizes sound from a phonograph to images from a kietoscope... didn't work too well and sound and pictures will not be syncronized successfully for another 37 years.

1895 First motion picture. Also Melies invents stop motion animation.

1900 Edison introduces Brownie... $1 camera for children.

1901 Marconi perfects wireless radio system.

1903 Fax machine is invented.

1906 Victrola... RCA buys the company and little logo dog too in 1929.

1906 Animation is introduced to film.

1914 Teletype is introduced.

1920 First commercial radio station KDKA-AM.

After Digitization