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Transmitting Pictures
A German inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow created a rotating disk technology to transmit pictures over wires, made in 1884. He is credited to discovering a television’s scanning principle because light intensities of small portions of an image are successively analyzed and transmitted. -
Cathode Ray Tube - Picture Tube
A German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun invented the cathode ray tube in 1897. It was a ‘picture tube’ which was one of the only objects that could create the images viewers saw. This was the basis for the advent of electronic television. -
Transparent Rods
In the 1920's, John Logie Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit the images to the television. They created 30-line images, other than the first demonstrations of television by reflecting light rather than black-lit silhouettes. His technology was based on Nipkow’s work. -
Moving Silhouettes
Charles Francis Jenkins invented a mechanical television, which was called the Radio Vision, and was claimed to have the earliest transmission of moving silhouette on June 14th, 1923. -
Patent for Electronic Color Television
In 1925, Russian TV pioneer Zworykin filed a patent disclosure for an all-electronic color television system. -
Image Dissector Tube
Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the dissector tube, which was the basis of all current electronic televisions. -
Images on the Television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was the first inventor to transmit an image on the television using 60 horizontal lines. -
Kinescope
Russian inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin invented an improved cathode ray tube called the kinescope in 1929. They were one of the first to demonstrate a system with all the features what would come to make a television. -
Intercarrier Sound System
Louis W. Parker invented the Intercarrier Sound System to synchronize television sound in 1947. His invention is used in all television receivers in the world. -
Remote Controls
The first remote control was made in 1950 by Zenith Electronics Corp., then known as Zenith Radio Corp. This remote was connected to the television by a wire. -
Colored Televison
In 1953, colored TV started being commercially broadcasted. -
'Rabbit Ears'
Marvin Middlemark invented the ‘rabbit ears’, or the two antennae that stick out from above the television in 1953. -
Wireless Remote Controls
In 1955, the first wireless remote control was created by Eugene Polley for Zenith Radio Corp. -
Plasma Display Monitors and Panels
Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson created the first prototype of the plasma display monitor/TV display panels to use small cells containing electrically charged ionized gases to generate high-quality imagery. The first prototype was made in 1964.
