Shortening time lapse before mass use of technological inventions

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Created : Dec 13, 2010 Published : Dec 14, 2010 Last modified : Nov 29, 2012 11:38 AM

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Timeline describing the ever-shortening time taken by a selection of inventions (telephone, radio, TV, Internet..) to reach a quarter of the population in the US.

This is the latest published version. .

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/shortening-time-lapse-before-mass/trend04-1g-soer2010-eps/image_original

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13 Dec 2010

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1870-2000

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Years necessary for an invention to be used by a quarter of the US population.

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