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Moving Pictures

By Jmccormick2024

  • Nipkow Disks

    Rotating disks that can transmit pictures over wires

  • First public moving picture

    First motion picture was made by the Lumier Brothers, 5-8 minutes long

  • Cathode Ray Tube

    Invented by Karl Ferdenand, creates images for viewers

  • Great Train Robbery

    First American movie, made by the Edison Corporation

  • Radiovision is invented

    Invented by Charles Francis Braun, transmits the earliest moving silhouette images

  • Patent disclosed for an all-electronic television

    Patent made by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

  • First television symbol transmitted ($)

    Advancement made by Philo Taylor Farnsworth

  • Improved CRT (kinescope)

    Invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

  • Intercarrier Sound System

    Invented by Louis W. Parker, syncs television sound to the picture playing

  • “Lazy Bone” controller developed

    Zenith Radio Corp.

  • “Rabbit Ears” antennae invented

    V-shaped TV antennae invented by Marvin Middlemark

  • Color television authorized by FCC

    Began commercialized broadcasting

  • TV remote controller enters American homes

  • Plasma TV display models invented

    Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Wilson