| 1902 |
 Chronomedia index
Numbers after entries link to the list of references. |
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| January 17 |
Times Literary Supplement is first published. |
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| March 18 |
Enrico Caruso records 10 arias in Milan for the Gramophone Company. The Italian
tenor is paid a fee of $500 for the session. |
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| March |
Biograph wins its appeal against a lower court's
decision in favour of Edison's cinematograph patents. |
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| April 2 |
Electric Theatre, the first cinema in Los Angeles, opens. The admission charge is
10 cents for a one-hour programme. |
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In its 1901/02 financial year, UK's Gramophone and Typewriter Company makes £137,268
net profit (equivalent to £8.72m in 2001). |
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| August 26 |
US patent 707934 is awarded to Woodville Latham for his
idea of including loops in the projector's film path to reduce tension. |
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| late |
Edwin S Porter directs The Life of an American Fireman, a pioneer narrative
film, made in New Jersey for Edison Manufacturing Company. It is probably inspired by
James Williamson's British film Fire!,
made the previous year. Porter's film is released in January 1903. |
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| November 28 |
Marconi sends wireless signals across the Atlantic from a more powerful new
transmitter at Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada to Poldhu in Cornwall. Reception is
faint. (See also December 5). |
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| December 5 |
Signals transmitted by Marconi from Cape Breton Island to Cornwall (see November 28)
are powerful enough for his personal receiving engineer, P J Woodward, to record the Morse code
signals on paper tape. [The tape is in the Science Museum, London.] |
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| l |
First film produced in Chile: Un Ejercicio General de Bomberos (A General Exercise
by Firemen). |
See also late above. |
| l |
Pathé Company buys out the Lumière film patents. |
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| l |
Georges Méliès makes a tour de force of trick cinematography: Le voyage dans la lune [Journey
to the moon, right]. |
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| l |
Warwick Trading Company introduces its Biokam triple-purpose film camera/printer/projector
for the amateur market in the UK. It uses 17.5mm film. |
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Columbia and Victor pool their US patents for talking machines and records. |
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| l |
R A Fessenden (1866-1932) of the University of Pittsburgh transmits speech using
wireless waves over a distance of one mile. |
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| l |
Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) in the UK and Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1861-1949) in the
US independently postulate that a high altitude atmospheric layer of ionised gas reflects radio waves
back to earth. |
à 1924 |
