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Television Timeline

By faithwalker123

  • First Image

    First Image
    Paul Gottlieb Nipkow proposed and patented the first microelectronic television system. NIpkow's spinning disk design is credited with being the first television image.

  • Idea

    Idea
    Philo Farnsworth, at 14, had an idea that an electron beam could scan a picture in horizontal lines, reproducing the image almost instantaneously.

  • First Movement

    First Movement
    John Logie Baird demonstrated a mechanically-scanned analougue television system by showing a moving picture.

  • Brodcast Televsion

    Brodcast Televsion
    The first long distance public television broadcast was from Washington, DC to New York City. The image shown was of then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.

  • TV Sets

    TV Sets
    The earliest television sets were radios with the addition of a television consisting of a neon tube with a mechanically spinning disk that produced a read postage size stamp image. The first publicly broadcast electronic service was in Germany. It had 180 lines of resolution and was only available in 22 public viewing rooms.

  • Today's TV's

    Today's TV's
    The quality is better. Screens are bigger. There are more channels. You can even connect other devices to your television and show things through it.