Television

First Motion Picture

Dec 28, 1895

Louis and Auguste Lumière patent the cinematograph capable of projecting moving pictures and on December 28 show the first motion pictures at the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard Des Capucines
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Thomas Edison shows First Motion Picture in U.S.

Apr 23, 1896

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Thomas Edison continues experimenting with Motion Pictures

Period: Apr 23, 1896 to Jan 1, 1899

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Constantin Perskyi makes the first know use of the word "Television"

Jan 1, 1900

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Boris Rosing combines Paul Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and produces the first working mechanical TV system

Jan 1, 1906

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Vladmir Kosma Zworykin Patents his iconscope television transmission tube which then leads the way to further advacement in the television

Jan 1, 1922

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Vladmir Kosma Zworykin patents the first television color tube

Jan 1, 1925

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October 30: The first moving image was transmitted (the famous grainy image of a ventriloquists dummy's head)

Oct 30, 1925

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Television is introduced in the United States

Jan 1, 1928

The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television license (W3XK) to Charles Jenkins John Logie Baird beams a television image from England to the United States The first television set is sold. The Daven television cost $75. RCA begins work on large-screen television. http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/08-television-invention-timeline.htm

By the end of 1931 there are nearly 40,000 television sets in the United States

Dec 31, 1931

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CBS was the first major tv network

Jan 1, 1937

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One Million homes in the United States now own televisions

Dec 31, 1948

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Broadcasted baseball game in color

Jan 1, 1951

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John F. Kennedy holdsthe first live televised news conference

Jan 1, 1961

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All-Color broadcasts introduced in the U.S.

Jan 1, 1964

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TV transmission from the moon watched by 600 million people

Jul 20, 1969

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50% of home tv's are now color

Jan 1, 1972

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98% of U.S. households have at least 1 television set

Jan 1, 1988

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900 million television sets in use around the world. 201 million of which are in the United States

Jan 1, 1992

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The year of the digital disc, a.k.a. DVD

Jan 1, 2000

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All Americans made the switch to all-digital tv

Jan 1, 2009

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3D movies and 3D tv

Jan 1, 2010

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Samsung's curved tv introduced

Jan 1, 2014

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