History of the Television: Engineering Design Process to a Mature Technology

By morgantaubert

  • The start of electronic inventions

    People were just discovering that electronics could make lives easier and began experimenting with it.

  • A still picture is transferred

    Abbe Giovanna Caselli invented the Pantelegraph. This machine could transfer an image through wires. Similiar to a telephone

  • Transfer of pictures to signals

  • George Carey thinks of the idea of a TV

    dreamed of a machine that people would use in their homes to view television

  • Invention of the photophore

    Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the photophone. It could transfer sound, but also do the same with high quality picture.

  • Television works

    Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through the wires using a rotating disk.

  • It was named "television"

  • New version of the TV

    Scientists developed a new way to work the television using cathode rays and a vacuum tube.

  • The moving picture is developed

    Scottish scientist, John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. It was called the moving picture.

  • The television is tested publicly

    The first long distance television test ran from Washington D.C. and New York.

  • The first TV station is born

    The first station is named W3XK. It was owned by Charles Jenkins.

  • Television revolution grows

    By 1936, there were 200 TV sets in use.

  • The first major television network

  • TV's tested at the World Fair to market to the public

  • Color TV was invented

  • TV from the moon

    The whole world was able to see Neil Armstrong step onto the moon.

  • Flat screens took over the TV market

    Developers at Panasonic released the flat screen TV and quickly grew.

  • HDTV

    Americans made the switch to all-digital television viewing.