Mass Media People

Samuel Morse

Invented Telegraph

Heinrich Hertz

Demonstrated existence of radio waves

Guglielmo Marconi

Known as the “Father of Radio”, produced first wireless transmission and first Trans Atlantic transmission

Reginald Fessenden

Broadcast first radio program, played carols on Christmas Eve, first time voices, music heard on radio waves, shocked wireless operators at sea

Orson Welles

Directed and narrated War of the Worlds

Edward R. Murrow

Radio news icon who was known for WW2 reports from London

Rush Limbaugh

Was the most listened radio personality for many years

Sean Hannity

Current most listened radio personality

Howard Stern

was a feature on SiriusXM

Eadweard Muybridge

Was a photographer who demonstrated Persistence of Vision to win a bet

Auguste and Louis Lumiere

Invented the Cinematographe

George Melies

Frenchman who pioneered use of narrative in film

Edwin Porter

American who used more sophisticated editing techniques

Stanley Kubrick

Recognized for his originality in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Martin Scorsese

Recognized for his originality in Taxi Driver

Spike Lee

Recognized for his originality in Do The Right Thing

Thomas Edison

Founded Motion Picture Patents Company

Adolph Zukor

Founded Paramount and started Star System

Philo Farnsworth

Invented the technology that led to electronic television and image dissector which is a TV vacuum tube device

Vladimir Zworykin

Russian technician for RCA who worked on early television technology

David Sarnoff

Started NBC

Rupert Murdoch

Started FOX

Tim Berners-Lee

Led development of HTML which allowed computers using different operating systems to communicate

Marc Andreessen

Created browsers staring with Mosaic and later Netscape, opened up Internet for everyone

Mark Zuckerberg

Started Facebook

Elon Musk

Took over X (Twitter)

ByteDance

Created TikTok