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

3.  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.

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

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

6.  Frenchman Louis Lumiere invented the first motion picture camera in 1895. He invented a portable motion picture camera, which is a film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.

7.  The first television camera was invented in 1897.

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

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

10.  The Walt Disney Company was founded October 16,1923

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

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

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

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

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

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

17.  The first computer based teleprompter appeared in 1982.

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

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

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

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

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

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