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The beginning
The history of television dates back to 1884 when Paul Nipkow designed the record that bears his name. ... Then the American radio engineer Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the image lecture tube, these two inventions being the ones that would later mark the beginnings of the electronic television system. -
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The media
With the invention of the Nipkow Disc by Paul Nipkow, the first great advance is made in making television a relevant communication medium. The first public television broadcasts were made by the BBC in England in 1927 and by CBS and NBC in the United States in 1930. -
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The actuality
Starting in the 1980s, television began to take its first steps towards digitization, driven by the digital revolution that the appearance of computers led to. This technology allowed greater data transmission capacity, better resolution and the use of all the processing power of the computerized world.