Histories of Media Technologies

General

Adventures in Cybersound - Timelines, essays, related articles on the rubric 'technology and society,' with topics ranging from the laterna magica to radio and television.

Dead Media - A field guide to media that didn't make it, or were surpassed by new technologies.

Film

Standardization of Film Stock - This site provides a nice introduction to the various stages of film stock standardization.

History of Film Sound - A good bibliography of references to film sound history.

Recording Technologies

Recording Technology History - Timelines and short synopses of recording technology history, from Edison's tinfoil cylinder phonograph to DVD and the iPod.

Writing/Printing/Text

History of the Book - Bibliography of resources (centers, organizations, societies) devoted to the history of the book.

Gutenberg Digital - Online scholarly project exploring Gutenberg's innovation with letterpress printing, as well as high quality scans of the Göttingen Gutenberg Bible.