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6000 BCE
Egyptians use ships for transportation
3300 BCE
Sumerians write on clay tablets
2500 BCE
Ink is first used
2000 BCE
Egyptians develop postal service
1000 BCE
Chinese develop postal service
100 CE
Chinese invent paper
700
Chinese circulate government newspaper
1368
Charles V forms Royal Library; later becomes Bibliothèque Nationale
1454
Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press
1609
1st newspaper published in Germany
1636
Harvard University and its library established
1690
1st newspaper published in American colonies
1702
1st daily newspaper printed in England
1731
Benjamin Franklin establishes the Library Company of Philadelphia
1753
Benjamin Franklin named postmaster for U.S. colonies
1753
British Museum founded
1767
Iron rails used for railroad
1783
1st daily newspaper published in United States (Philadelphia)
1785
U.S. road system created
1807
Fulton launches steamboat
1814
Steam-driven press publishes London Times
1829
1st main-line U.S. railroad
1829
Louis Daguerre invents photographic process using copper plates
1835
New York passes legislation to create school district libraries
1837
Telegraph used by Great Western Railway in England
1838
1st steamship crosses Atlantic
1850s
Public libraries founded in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.
1858
Registered mail service begins in United States
1858
Richard Dudgeon builds 1st steam-powered car
1860
Pony Express begins service
1860
Étienne Lenoir patents an internal-combustion engine
1864
Money order service begins in United States
1876
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1876
American Library Association founded
1885
Registered mail service begins in United States
1885
AT&T formed; Karl Benz builds 1st automobile
1886
1st linotype machines used to publish New York Tribune
1887
Melville Dewey founds 1st library school at Columbia University
1888
George Eastman uses paper to record photographs
1889
Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
1891
Daimler builds 1st truck powered by an internal-combustion engine
1895
Buses powered by internal-combustion engines 1st produced
1897
French are 1st to use trucks in the military
1901
Guglielmo Marconi sends radio signal between two cities
1902
Oldsmobile begins mass-production
1903
Wright Brothers' 1st flight
1904
Radio is installed in 124 ships at sea
1913
Parcel post service begins in United States
1913
Henry Ford introduces moving assembly line for car production
1914
Last horse-drawn buses stop running in London
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