History of Television

ray tubes

Sep 15, 1907

A.A. Campbell-Swinton from England and Russian scientist Boris Rosing, used ray tubes and mechanical scanner systems to make a television system. You can find this information on http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nZHLb2Yj0MMJ:www.thehistoryoftelevision.com/+tv's+history&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

mirror-drum

Jan 2, 1911

Boris Rosing and Vladimir Zworykin created a television system that useing mirror-drum scanner to transmit crude images. Moving images were not possible because the sensitivity was not enough in the scanner.

sillhouettes

Mar 25, 1925

the first screening of sillhouetted objects.

moving images

Aug 25, 1925

The discovery of scanning moving images went public August 25th of 1900.

reflected light

Apr 7, 1927

Herbert E. Ives and Frank Gray displayed a very clear representation of tv's. They used reflected light and many other things.

electronic picture

Sep 15, 1927

In 1927 21-year-old Philo Farnsworthm was the first electronic television picture. This information was found on http://www.emmytvlegends.org/resources/tv-history

signal

Dec 18, 1927

Baird transmitted signal over 438 miles between London and Glasgow. This making it to where when tv was aired you could view it even if you werent close by.

newest tv's

Dec 31, 2012

On http://www.history.com/apple-tv-app it tells you tv's are still being updated now.They have new versions like apple tv's and new macs and such.