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First Television system
Philo Farnsworth and his assistants successfully demonstrated how to work his invention in his lab in San Fransico. He transmitted a television image compromised of 60 horozontal lines.The first image was a dollar sign. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jEaYntfLEMoJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us -
Large-screen Television
RCA begins work on Large-screen television. They demonstrate it at RKO-58th street Theatre, New York on January 16, 1930 -
Feild-Sequential color technology
Peter Goldmark invented a system that tansmitted on 343 lines, about 100 less than a black and white set, and at a different feild scan rate. That made it incompatible with televison sets on the market without an adapter http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CMseawG1BWsJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-sequential_color_system+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us -
HDTV Colour System
John Logie Baird, who was working on his own, demonstrated a 600 line HDTV colour system for television -
Television Receiver
Louis W. Parker got a patent issued in 1948 for his creation of the Television Receiver. It sold for less than $125 -
Cable TV
Cable Television is introduced in Pennsylvania by John and Margaret Walson. It was formerly named Community Antenna Television or CATV
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Projection Television
Philips experiments and produces projection television. It could produce a picture 4ft x 3ft -
"Rabbit Ears" Antenna
Marvin P. Middlemark invented the antenna. It increased the signal reception of the television http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sy9Gz4Ok1_oJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Middlemark+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us -
Color TV broadcast
Color broadcasting allowed viewers to view broadcasts in the color they are recorded in. This was a major advancment in the development of television -
Remote Control
Robert Adler invents first practical Remote Control called 'Zenith Space Commander,' proceeded by wired remotes and units that failed in sunlight -
Flat Screens
Developers at Panasonic developed and released the flat screen TV. It quickly took over the TV market
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/past-present-and-future-tvs
