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1. The 1939 World’s Fair Introduces Regular U.S. Television Service
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. America Online Agrees to Buy Time Warner
4. Antitrust Prosecution Forces RCA to Restructure
5. Armstrong Perfects FM Radio
6. The Art of Radio Develops from Early Broadcast Experience
7. AT&T Agrees to Be Broken Up as Part of an Antitrust Settlement
8. AT&T and GTE Install Fiber-Optic Telephone Systems
9. AT&T Divestiture Takes Effect
10. AT&T Is Ordered to Reduce Charges
11. Barbara Walters
12. Barnay Develops Rotary Dial Telephone
13. The BBC Begins Television Broadcasting
14. Bell Atlantic and TCI Announce Merger Plans
15. Bell Demonstrates the Telephone
16. Bell Labs Introduces Electronically Amplified Hearing Aids
17. Bell Labs Is Formed
18. Bell System Demonstrates Long-Distance Television
19. The British Broadcasting Corporation Is Chartered
20. The Cable News Network Debuts
21. Cai Lun Invents Paper
22. Code talkers
23. Commercial Radio Broadcasting Begins
24. Community Antenna Television Is Introduced
25. Congress Establishes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
26. Cryptography
27. Crystal Sets Lead to Modern Radios
28. Debut of Commercial Television
29. Direct Transoceanic Dialing Begins
30. Dreyfuss Designs the Bell “300” Telephone
31. Echo, the First Passive Communications Satellite, Is Launched
32. Electronic Technology Creates the Possibility of Telecommuting
33. Electronic Warfare
34. Fessenden Perfects Radio by Transmitting Music and Voice
35. First Baron Reith of Stonehaven
36. The First Commercial Test of Fiber-Optic Telecommunications Is Conducted
37. First Digital High-Definition Television Signals Are Broadcast
38. First Electronic Telephone Switching System Begins Operation
39. First Marquess of Dalhousie
40. First Telegraph Message
41. The First Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite System Opens a New Era in Space Communications
42. First Transatlantic Cable
43. The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable Is Put into Operation
44. The First Transcontinental Telephone Call Is Made
45. Great Britain Announces Plans to Privatize British Telecom
46. Gutenberg Pioneers the Printing Press
47. Hasbro Advertises Toys on Television
48. IBM Markets the Personal Computer
49. Intel Unveils 1.5 Gigahertz Microprocessor
50. Invention of the Transistor