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Paul Nipkow
Paul Nipkow was a German engineer/ inventor who is responsible for developing the Mechanical scanning disk. (The Nipkow disk) It was invented in 1884 and was used for television till 1932. It was metal disk that spins and has a spiral pattern with holes drilled into it, and later replaced by electronic scanning. www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/paul-nipkow. -
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John Logie Baird
John Baird was a Scottish engineer that was the first person to televise picture of motion objects. He's known for him producing televised objects in 1924 and transmitted human faces in 1925. He was the first to demonstrate the televising of moving objects at the royal institution, London in 1926. “John Logie Baird.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 30 Jan. 2024, www.britannica.com/biography/John-Logie-Baird. -
First transmission of human voice & Music
On December 24, 1906, Physicist Reginald Fessenden sent the first long-distance transmission of human voice and Music. The signal transmitted from his station from Massachusetts to Norfolk, Virginia. “The Development of Radio.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2024. -
BBC radio station is launched
BBC started its first daily radio service in Londan after the closing of many new stations that launched. They held their first program at 6pm and it was a news bulletin supplied by news agencies which was followed by a weather forecast. Sillito, David. “Mystery of BBC Radio’s First Broadcasts Revealed 100 Years On.” BBC News, BBC, 14 Nov. 2022, www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63583081. -
Mechanical television
Mechanical TV was pioneered by John Logi Baird, and developed out of Nipkow's disk system. In Selfridge's department store in London, Baird held the world's first public demo of a television system. Baird used the mechanical rotating disk to scan moving images into electrical impulses. -
The first Debates to be televised.
Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy held the first televised presidential debates. With over 70 million Americans tuned into the debate, it changed the view point people had of the presidents because now they were able to see and listen to what they had to say in their debate. August, Melissa. “The Real History of the First Televised Presidential Debate.” Time, Time, 22 Aug. 2023, time.com/6307191/first-televised-presidential-debate-history/.