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still picture
with still picture, someone would have to take a bunch of pictures of something with only slight changes from the picture that was taken before it, then these pictures would be flipped through so quickly that would seem to be moving. -
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history of television
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Transfer pictures to signals
a tv camera would pictures and sound into a signal then that signal would be sent from a tv transmitter to a tv receiver. -
Moving pictures were developed
John Baird invented the moving picture which was a way to capture a object in motion. -
the first tv station was born
Charles Francis Jenkins created the first tv station. They broadcasted radio movies five nights a week. -
Cable television
Cable television was developed in the mountain-filled areas of the US so that they could get better reception through the mountains. -
The Golden age
The 1950s were known as the golden age for television because that is when television really became popular. In 1945 the number of TVs sold in the US was less than 10,000 but then the numbers rose to about 6 million in the 1950s. -
Colored tv is released
The first colored TVs were sold in but the popularity of colored TVs remained low until the mid-1960s. -
Flat screen TVs take over
Flat-screen TVs were released and quickly became popular, people liked the more because they were thinner, lighter, and could hang on walls.