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The Start
As a 23-year-old German university student, Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884. -
Nipkow disk
German, Paul Nipkow developed a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884 called the Nipkow disk. -
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Word television
Constantin Perskyihad coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900. -
V shaped TV
Marvin Middlemark invented "rabbit ears", the "V" shaped TV antennae.
Color TV was by no means a new idea, a German patent in 1904 -
images for television
In the 1920's, John Logie Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television. -
Transmit televison
In 1927, Philo Farnsworth was the first inventor to transmit a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines. -
Kinescope
Russian inventor, Vladimir Zworykin invented an improved cathode-ray tube called the kinescope in 1929. -
Changeable television reciever
Louis Parker invented the modern changeable television receiver. The patent was issued to Louis Parker in 1948.
