Motion pictures ambriee

Electronic communication starts

Dec 1, 1831

People named Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's worked with electromagnetism and jumpstart the era of electronic communication.

Motion Pictures

Period: Dec 1, 1831 to Dec 3, 1996

There were a lot of things that led up to the making of movies.

Scentists Experiment

Dec 1, 1862

Scentists and inventors come up with new ideas with light and wires. Then they create ways to transmit sound and find out a lot of things.

Called it television

Dec 2, 1900

At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."

Electronic models

Dec 2, 1907

Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian emigrant Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.

First Moving Silhouette Images

Dec 2, 1924

American Charles Jenkins and John Baird from Scotland, each demonstrate the mechanical transmissions of images over wire circuits. John Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system based on a special disk.

Movies

Dec 3, 1927

The first movies were made without sound. Then they fixed that and then the movies had sound.

343 Lines of Resolution

Dec 2, 1940

Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resolution color television system

Videotape

Dec 3, 1952

A company introduced the first good videotape system of broadcast quality.

Satellite TV

Dec 2, 1962

AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts - broadcasts are now internationally relayed.

VHS

Dec 3, 1986

Super VHS introduced.

Worldwide

Dec 3, 1996

The FCC approves ATSC's HDTV standard. A billion TV sets world-wide.