senior research timeline

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  • Telephone System

    Telephone System
    American inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison start working on a telephone system that could transmit image.

  • Electric Telescope

    Electric Telescope
    German technician and inventor Paul Nipkow managed to transmit static image with 18 horizontal lines of resolution. His “Electric Telescope” quickly became the basis of many future mechanical television designs.

  • First TV

    First TV
    Boris Rosing managed to improve Nipkow’s “Electric Telescope” and produce first fully working mechanical TV system.

  • Cathode Ray Tubes

    Cathode Ray Tubes
    Work on electric television continued with both Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing managing to improve the work of cathode ray tubes.

  • Image Transmitting Methods

    Image Transmitting Methods
    Scotland scientists Charles Jenkins and John Baird managed to demonstrate their image transmitting methods, in both mechanical and electrical form. John Baird then made television system with 30 lines of horizontal resolution and 5 frames per second.

  • Video Images

    Video Images
    Vladimir Zworkin produces cheap electrical system that can both transmit and receive video images.

  • First Commercial

    First Commercial
    First commercial aired on Charles Jenkins’s television program, BBC begins its regular TV transmission.

  • Showcased Around America

    Showcased Around America
    Television was showcased in many fairs across America, with some models having radio for those who wanted to hear audio together with the image. 343 lines of resolution TV was introduced.

  • Cable In Homes

    Cable In Homes
    Cable television comes to rural parts of United States, television hardware become cheaper enabling 1 million homes to have one set.

  • Colored Television

    Colored Television
    FCC approves first two color television standards.

  • Remote Control

    Remote Control
    Introduction of first practical videotape by Ampex, and first practical remote control by Robert Adler.

  • Moon landing

    Moon landing
    600 million watched live transmission of first human landing on the moon.

  • Japanese Introduced Something New

    Japanese Introduced Something New
    Japanese television company NHK introduced television system with 1125 lines of horizontal resolution – first HD television.

  • Stereo TV Broadcasts

    Stereo TV Broadcasts
    Sporadic network transmission of stereo audio began on NBC on July 26, 1984, with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, although at the time only the network's New York City flagship station, WNBC, had stereo broadcast capability.

  • HDTV

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