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Shortening time lapse before mass use of technological inventions
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Created 13 Dec 2010
Published 14 Dec 2010
Last modified 29 Nov 2012
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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.
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Years necessary for an invention to be used by a quarter of the US population.
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- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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This graph covers the United States.
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Temporal coverage
1870-2000
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