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EMC helps ensure cultural treasures are available for future generations to access and enjoy. Through our Information Heritage Initiative, EMC provides products, services, and financial assistance for digital information heritage programs worldwide. Projects include:

How we’ve captured and recorded our beliefs, our knowledge, our entertainment:

Since 2007 we have provided more than $37 million in products, services, and financial assistance for digital information heritage programs worldwide.

At EMC, we redfine what's possible by transforming people's lives through the power of information. To learn more about EMC’s Information Preservation Initiatives, visit: http://emc.im/1nbMg08

RECORDING CULTURE, DOWN THE AGES

EMC INFORMATION PRESERVATION INITIATIVES

30,000 BC CAVE PAINTINGS

Images of animals and outlines of hands appear on

cave walls in Europe and Asia. Their exact purpose is

not known.

3,000 BC EARLY WRITING

People in Sumeria, an ancient civilization in what is now

southern Iraq, use pictograms as an early form of writing.

3,000 BC FIRST PAPER

The earliest form of paper is developed from woven

papyrus plants in Egypt, as well as in Greece and Rome.

2,600 BC FIRST LIBRARY

Sumerians create the first library consisting of

clay tablets.

1605 FIRST NEWSPAPER

German publisher Johann Carolus prints Relation aller

Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Account of all distinguished and commemorable news).

1439 PRINTING PRESS

German blacksmith Johannes Gutenberg

invents the first printing press with movable type, enabling mass production of books.

220 EARLY PRINTING

The Chinese develop woodblock printing on

cloth and paper. It spreads to Europe

where it was common by 1300.

105 AD MODERN PAPER

A Chinese court official, Cai Lun, creates paper made

from wood fibers and rags. The invention spreads

slowly to other countries.

1827 FIRST PHOTOGRAPH

French inventor Joseph Niépce pioneers a

method of capturing light using polished

pewter and bitumen.

1843 FIRST COMPUTER

PROGRAM

English mathematician Ada Lovelace describes how a

proposed mechanical computer could solve

mathematical problems.

1860 FIRST SOUND RECORDING

French printer Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invents the earliest known audio recording device, the

phonoautograph.

1876 FIRST TELEPHONE

Scottish-born scientist Alexander Graham Bell is awarded a US patent

for the electric telephone.

1926 FIRST TELEVISION TRANSMISSION

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird transmits live images of

a moving face – the first public demonstration of

television.

1906 FIRST RADIO BROADCAST

Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden

broadcasts the first radio program to ships off the

New England coast.

1889 FIRST MOTION

PICTURE

US inventor Thomas Edison invents the Kinetograph, an

early movie camera, and Kinetoscope, a machine on

which to watch motion pictures.

1887 FIRST GRAMOPHONES

American inventor Emile Berliner develops the

‘Gramophone’ method of recording sound on flat discs, or records.

1935 FIRST TAPERECORDER

Electrical equipment maker AEG demonstrates the world’s first practical

tape recorder, using magnetic reel-to-reel tape.

1959 FIRST COPYING

MACHINE Xerox launches the

world’s first commercially successful photocopier,

making copies on ordinary paper.

1963 FIRST COMPACT

CASSETTES Philips introduces the

Compact Cassette format in Europe, and a

year later in the US.

1972 FIRST VCR

The Video Cassette Recorder is launched in

England by Philips. It costs the same amount

as a small car.

1984 FIRST MOBILE PHONE

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the most

handheld cellphone, went on sale for $3,995.

1982 FIRST COMPACT DISCS

The first CDs were pressed by Philips in

Germany and included The Visitors by ABBA.

1979 FIRST PERSONAL MUSIC PLAYER

Sony introduces the Walkman, a compact and highly portable cassette

player designed to be listened to while walking around.

1974 EARLY PERSONAL

COMPUTERS

The Altair is introduced as a mail-order kit. Its BASIC programming language

was adapted by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

1989 WORLD WIDE WEB

Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposes a means to publish and share information using internet technologies. His proposal

becomes the World Wide Web.

1991 FIRST WEBSITE

The first webpage is created by Sir Tim

Berners-Lee, then working for CERN in Switzerland. It describes how the World

Wide Web operates.

1994 FIRST SMARTPHONE

IBM’s Simon Personal Communicator goes on

sale offering mobile email and faxes. It does not have a web browser.

1999 FIRST DVRs

Digital video recorder pioneer TiVo ships its

first products.

2010 FIRST iPAD

Steve Jobs introduces the iPad saying it will create a “third

category” of devices between smartphones and laptops.

2007 FIRST iPHONE

Apple’s Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone, saying the “magical

device” will transform the telecoms industry.

THE USEK LIBRARY OF LEBANON

THE ROYAL INSTITUTION’S CHRISTMAS LECTURESChristmas lectures have been presented by eminent scientists at the Royal Institution in London since 1825. The lectures have been broadcast on TV since 1966.

Having awarded a Heritage Trust Grant, EMC is helping to digitize all the Christmas lecture recordings so they are available to audiences around the world.

The library at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) was founded by the Lebanese Maronite monastic order in 1938. The library’s mission is “to ensure the preservation and long-lasting availability of resources of national and ethnic heritage” and began preserving manuscripts of the order in 2003. Since then it has preserved:

THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY COLLECTIONAuthor and journalist Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls at his home, Finca Vigía, in Cuba. The house – in which he lived from 1939 to 1960 – is today a museum filled with Hemingway’s irreplaceable letters, telegrams, photos and books.

Through a partnership with the Finca Vigía Foundation, EMC is working collaboratively with Cuban colleagues to restore and preserve Hemingway’s vast collection.

THE VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARYThe Vatican Apostolic Library holds many of the rarest and most valuable documents in existence including the 42-line Latin Bible of Gutenberg, the first book printed with movable type.

Over nine years, EMC will:

• Help digitize the entire library, which includes nearly 90,000 historic books, manuscripts, documents and early papyrus texts

• Provide 2.8 petabytes of storage capacity – enough to store the 40 million pages of digitized content

EMC is providing: • Digitizing technology• Storage infrastructure• Backup and recovery systems

10,000manuscripts from Lebanon and Middle East – 4,000 have been digitized

1,500rare books and special collections

2001 DIGITAL CAMERAS

Kodak begins selling mass-market digital

cameras, first invented by Kodak engineer

Steven Sasson in 1975.

Since the beginning of mankind, we have recorded our cultural history using the latest technologies. Our cultural heritage has been captured and recorded in artworks, books, audio recordings, movies and TV programs, stored in museums and libraries around the world. However, many treasures are in locations where they are unprotected from the risks of degradation or destruction.

INFORMATION PRESERVATION

JFK PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

8.4 millionpages of JFK’s presidential papers

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is creating an online archive of the President’s life. This includes:

Archivists have seen a significant improvement in the processes for scanning, managing, and cataloging the large volume of priceless materials

400,000still photographs

9,000 hoursof audio recording

7.5 million feetof motion picture film

1,200 hoursof video recordings