Technology
- February 25 - Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.
- May - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph and exhibits it to the United States Congress.
- June 12 - Cooke and Wheatstone file their patent for the electrical telegraph in the United Kingdom.
- July 19 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Western is launched in Bristol.
- July - Godefroy Engelmann of Mulhouse patents chromolithography.
- November 18 - William Crompton patents the cotton power loom in the United States.
- Louis Daguerre's daguerrotype L’Atelier de l'artiste is said to be the earliest known photographic image successfully to undergo the full process of exposure, development and fixation.
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“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
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“The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”
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