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Early TV
All the early television systems were black and white, with color television being invented much later on. Since the early invention of television in the beginning of the 1900s, history has seen many firsts in the area of television. -
Late 1800s
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow a student in Germany made the first ever mechanical module of TV. He succeeded in sending images through wires with the help of a moving metal disk. This technology was called the ‘electric telescope’ that had 18 lines of resolution. -
The first T.V.
The television was invented in 1907. It was invented by two men named A.A. Campbell-Swinton and scientist Boris Rosing. They succeeded in building using information aff of many other scientists. -
Mechanical television pt. 1
In 1926, just a little after Jenkins, a British inventor known as John Logie Baird was the first person to have succeeded in transmitting moving pictures through the mechanical disk system started by Nipkow. He also started the first ever TV studio -
Mechanical TV pt. 2
From 1926 till 1931 the mechanical television system saw many innovations. Although the discoveries of these men in the department of mechanical television were very innovative by 1934, all television systems had converted into the electronic system.
This is what is being used even today -
Electronic and mechanical
From the experiments of Nipkow and Rosing, two types of television systems came into existence, mechanical television and electronic television -
Farnsworth pt. 1
The experiments of Swinton in 1907 with the cathode ray tube for electronic television held great potential but were not changed into reality. in 1927, Philo Taylor Farnsworth was able to invent a working model of electronic television that was based on Swinton’s ideas. -
Farnsworth pt. 2
His experiments had started when he was just 14 years old. By the time he was 21, Philo had created the first electronic television system which did away with the moving disks and other mechanical views of mechanical television. Thus was born the television system which is the base of all modern TVs.
