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when electronic communication starts

Dec 1, 1831

Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism to start the era of electronic communication.

first still image transferred

Dec 1, 1862

Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents Pantelegraph and is first person to transmit a still image over wires.

Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light

Dec 1, 1873

this is the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.

complete system

Dec 2, 1876

goegre carey made a drawing of a camera to see useing electricity

bells photophone

Dec 2, 1880

Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison thought about a phone that sends pictures

telephotography

Dec 2, 1881

Sheldon Bidwell experiments with his Telephotography it was similiar to Bell's Photophone.

18 lines of resolution

Dec 2, 1884

Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.

i called it telavision

Dec 2, 1900

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

First Mechanical Television

Dec 3, 1906

Boris Rosing put Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube together and builds the first working mechanical TV system.

HDTV

Dec 3, 1996

tv sets sold world wide