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The Invention of the Nipkow Disk
A man named Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through wires with the help of a rotating metal disk. This technology is named the 'Nipkow Disk' or 'Electric Telescope'. -
Boris Rosing's Television
Boris Rosing and his student, Vladmir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit images over wires to a Cathode Ray Tube. While single images could be received, moving images were not achievable. -
The Development of the 'Moving Picture'
A scientist from Scotland, named John Logie Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion in 1924 which became known as a ‘moving picture.’ He managed to beat other inventors by only few short months and showcase his full mechanical television system with recording, transmission and reproducing of broadcast. On 26 January 1926 he gave the world's first demonstration of true television before 50 scientists in an attic room in central London. -
Improved Television Test
On April 7th 1927, Herbert E. Ives and Frank Gray of Bell Telephone Laboratories gave a demonstration of mechanical television with a reflected-light system which included both small and large viewing screens. Both sets reproduced accurate moving images as well as receiving synchronized sounds. The disc had at a rate of 18 frames per second, capturing one frame about every 56 milliseconds. -
First Working Electronic Television
Philo Farnsworth, an American inventor, had ideas of his ideal television from a young age. He spent his teenage years working on his idea and at the age of 21, in September 1927, Philo unveiled his all-electronic television prototype which was the first of its kind.This was the same device that Farnsworth had sketched in his chemistry class as a teenager. -
International TV Broadcasting
On 13th January 1928, a television station under the name of W2XB began broadcasting. On November 2, 1936, the BBC began transmitting the world's first public regular high-definition service which became known as the birthplace of television broadcasting. -
Charles Jenkins & The First TV Station
In 1923, an American inventor named Charles Jenkins used the disk idea of Nipkow to invent the first ever practical mechanical television system. In 1925, Jenkins used Nipkow disk and transmitted a silhouette image of a toy windmill in motion, over a distance of five miles from Maryland to Washington, D.C. In 1928, Jenkins started the first official television station and it was named W3XK. -
The Development of Colour TV
Colour TV had been in development for many years and was first broadcast on CBS as a commercial on June 25, 1951, however, many people could not watch it as they only had black-and-white televisions. It wasn't until the 1960s until the general public started buying colour TVs and 1970s until it became the dominant form of television. -
Development of Remote Control
While the first attempted remote control was developed in 1950 by Zenith Radio Corporation with the remote being connected to the TV with wire, the first wireless remote control called the "Flashmatic", was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley and began the rise of the wireless remote control. It was in June of 1956, that the practical television remote controller first entered the American home. -
Development of TV Satelittes
The Relay 1 satellite was the first satellite to transmit television signals from the US to Japan and was launched in 1962. The world's first commercial communications satellite, called Intelsat I and nicknamed "Early Bird", was launched into geosynchronous orbit on April 6, 1965. The first national network of television satellites, called Orbita, was created by the Soviet Union in October 1967.