 A German Astronomer, invented the first mechanical calculating machine in 1623 which we now call the computer.

 The first camera was invented May 8, 1840 by Alexander Wolcott. Photographs were taken prior to that, But it really wasn’t a camera to take photographs.

 The first machine to show animated pictures or movies was a device called the “Wheel of Life” in 1867 by William Lincoln.

 The first microphone was invented in 1876 by Emile Berliner for Alexander Graham Bell. This was used as a telephone voice transmitter.

 Frenchman Louis Lumiere invented the first motion picture camera in He invented a portable motion picture camera, which is a film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.

 The first television camera was invented in 1897.

 Color film began as early as 1906, but wasn’t as perfect until 1920.

 Montreal opened one of the very first movie theaters in the world in 1906.

 The Walt Disney Company was founded October 16,1923

 The first sound system was made in 1933 by Alan Dower Blumlein.

 The world’s first demonstration of the video tape was November 11, 1951 by Bing Crosby.

 The first digital video camera was invented April 14, 1956 by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson.

 The first video tape recorder was introduced in 1956 by German scientists in World War II

 The first commercially professional video cassette recorder (VCR) was introduced in 1975.

 Nickelodeon was founded on December 1,1977 as (Pinwheel) then later changed the name to what we now call Nickelodeon.

 The first computer based teleprompter appeared in 1982.

 Hitachi introduced the MDV (Mini-Digital Video) cassette in the 1900s for higher quality images.

 The first projected sound film came out in 1990 in Paris. Sound film was a motion picture with sound which opposed silent film.

 On October 1,1992 at approximately 12 p.m ET, Cartoon Network was launched as an outlet for Turner’s considerable library of animation.

 The first digital camera was invented in 1995 for video quality at home.

 The first DVD video format was introduced by Toshiba in November 1996.

 The DVD discs were released in 1997 shortly after the video tape for the VCR became a thing of the past.