10-inch, 78 rpm
12-inch, 33 ⅓ rpm
7-inch, 45-rpm
Adolf Zukor
Advanced Research Projects Agency
AGFA
Alexander Graham Bell
Altair 8800
Altair BASIC
Xerox Alto
American Marconi (1899)
American Telephone and Telegraph
an invisible "empire of the air"
answering machines
anti-trust exemption
Apocalypse Now (motion picture)
Apple II
ARPANET
Arthur Judson
Au clair de la lune (song, 1860)
audio cassette Tapes (1960s)
audion triode vacuum tube
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Baby Bells
Baird Television
Big Five (motion pictures, c. 1930)
bit
BITNET, USENET, and NSFNet
block booking
Bob Metcalfe
broadcasting
bulletin board system
byte
Carl Laemmle
Carterphone
CD and DVD
celluloid
Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter
cinematographe
Columbia Broadcasting System
common carrier
Communications Act of 1934
compact discs
music composers
David Sarnoff
deregulation
desktop metaphor
digital compression
digital recording
diodes
distributed network
Eadweard Muybrdige
Eduouard-Leon Scott de Martinville
Edwin H. Armstrong
electromagnetic waves
electronic television
email
Emile Berliner
ENIAC
Ethernet
factors leading to decline of movie industry, post–World War II
fax machines
Federal Communications Act
first-run picture palaces
Fleming Tube
Florence Lawrence
Frank Conrad
Gardiner Hubbard
George Eastman
Gramophone (1887)
Grand Cafe screenings
graphophone (1886)
Guglielmo Marconi
GUI
Hannibal Goodwin
Heaven's Gate (motion picture)
Heinrich Hertz
high-speed LAN
Hollywood auteurs (c. 1970)
home dubbing
Hush a Phone
hypertext markup language
IBM PC
Independents (motion pictures, c. 1912)
integrated services
Intel
interconnection
interlacing
intermixture
internetting
J.C.R. Licklider
James Maxwell
John Philip Sousa
Jules-Etienne Marey
KDKA Pittsburgh
kinescope
kinetograph
kinetoscope
Kingsbury Commitment
latham loop
Lee deForest
Little Three (motion pictures, c. 1930)
Livermore National Lab
Local Area Network
local exchange
long lines
long-distance telephone competition
Ma Bell
Macintosh
magento-optical drives
magnetic disks
magnetic tape
Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company (1897)
Marcus Loew
Mark Andreesen
Mary Pickford
mechanical television
microcomputers
microprocessors
microwave relay
minicomputers
modem
monopoly
Mosaic
Motion Picture Patents Company
mouse
multichannel sound
National Broadcasting Company
National Television Standards Committee
NBC Red and Blue
New Hollywood (c. 1970)
nickelodeons
Nipkow Disk
oligopoly
open source
packet switching
patent pool
Philo T. Farnsworth
phonograph
photo gun or photographic rifle
price discrimination (in motion pictures)
production, distribution, and exhibition (in motion pictures)
music publishers
punch cards
quadrophonic sound
Queen Elizabeth
Qwest
Radio Corporation of America
radio with pictures
RCA color vs. CBS color
RCA-Victor
regeneration
Reginald Fesseden
roll film
rotary dialing
SAGE
Sarah Bernhardt
Scott Joplin
sheet music
shellac vs. polyvinyl
ship-to-shore communication
silicon
Sputnik launching
Steinway Piano
stereophonic sound
suburbanization (c. 1950)
talking pictures
Telecommunications Act of 1996
telegraph
Telstar
Texas Instruments
Theodore Vail
Thomas Edison
Tim Berners-Lee
Tin Pan Alley
touchtone dialing
transistors
universal service
Verizon
vertical integration
VHF vs. UHF TV
Victor Talking Machine Company
Victrola
vitagraph
Vladimir Zworkin
WEAF, New York
Western Electric
Western Union
WGY, Schenectady, 1922
wide area network
widescreen cinema and color (motion pictures, c. 1950)
William Fox
William Paley
wireless telegraphy
wireless telephony
WJZ Newark, New Jersey
WKL Dickson
World Wide Web
World’s Fair 1939
Xerox PARC
zoopraxiscope