Wired — Data storage
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Data storage
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Pitman shorthand | data recording manually | 1837 | Isaac Pitman | UK |
| Silver based photo processing | Daguerrotype | 1837 | Louis Daguerre | France |
| Rotary printing press | 1843 | Richard Marx Hoe | USA | |
| Color photography | images in color | 1855 | James Clerk Maxwell | UK |
| Continuous roll printing press | high volume printing | 1863 | William A. Bullock | USA |
| Typewriter | QWERTY keyboard | 1866 | Christopher Latham Sholes | USA |
| Phonograph | sound recording | 1877 | Thomas Alva Edison | USA (88) |
| Ball point pen | early | 1880 | Alonzo T. Cross | USA |
| Fountain pen | no dip required | 1884 | Lewis Waterman | USA |
| Plastic film | 1884 | George Eastman | USA | |
| Typewriter ink ribbon | continuous ink for typing | 1886 | George K. Anderson | USA |
| Gramophone disc phonograph recorder | on records | 1887 | Emile Berliner | Germany/USA |
| Shellac (wax) compounds | for phonographic discs | 1887 | Emile Berliner | Germany/USA |
| Push button film camera | easy photography | 1888 | George Eastman (Kodak) | USA |
| Kinetoscope | motion pictures | 1888 | Thomas Alva Edison | USA |
| Juke box | record playing machine | 1889 | Lewis Glass | USA |
| Motion picture camera | and projector | 1895 | Auguste and Louis Lumiere | France (37) |