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The history of television dates back to the XVIII century, with the invention of the mechanical disk by Paul Gottilieb Nipkow, a German scientist.
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The Russian scientist, Constantin Perskyi, gives as "birth" the word television, in a document read at the first International Congress on Electricity.
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At the beginning of the XX century, the American physicist Vladimir Kosma Zworykin created the first device, with the ability to capture images, in RCA laboratories. This invention gives way to Electric Television.
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The North American radio engineer Philo Taylor Farnsworth, in 1923, invented the image lecture tube.
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5 years later, the first experimental transmissions took place, from the W3XK station in Washington.
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The German, Telefunken, in 1934 gave rise to the first cathode ray tubes giving better resolution and speed.
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The biggest step for television, in the 1940s, the Mexican inventor Guillermo Gonzales Camarena invented a sequential trichromatic system.
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For the decade of the 70, the adaptation of the commercial television is finished.
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In the same decade of the 70, companies like Home Box Office (HBO), started the cable pay service.
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In the United States, the first flat-screen TV came out.
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The LG brand develops the first 3D screen
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Full resolution invention (4K)