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First still Image
First still image captured and transferred -
Let there be light
scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals. -
And then there was sound
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison theorize about telephone devices that transmit image as well as sound. -
Are those images I see?
Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution. -
They call it Television
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We're getting there youre on to something
Lee de Forest invents the Audion vacuum tube that proved essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ability to amplify signals. -
Okay so we got a studio :) But....
John Baird opens the first TV studio, however, the image quality was poor. -
Here come the Brits
Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial.
The BBC begins regular TV transmissions. -
The numbers are starting to grow
200 televisions are in use in the world -
CBS
CBS begins its TV development -
WE HAVE COLOR
The FCC approves the first color television standard which is replaced by a second in 1953.
Vladimir Zworkin developed a better camera tube called the Vidicon.