Television Timeline

By AUKling23

  • Sketch of the TV

    Sketch of the TV
    This is when the first sketch was made. Although this happened in 1884, it took more than a decade for the first TV set to be created and marketed.

  • First Mechanical TV

    First Mechanical TV
    Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird make the first ever public display of the television.

  • First Electronic TV

    First Electronic TV
    This was first demonstrated in San Francisco, designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who had been working on it since mid 1920.

  • First TV Broadcast

    First TV Broadcast
    The beginning of TV broadcasting started here when BBC created their first public broadcast.

  • First TV Commercial

    First TV Commercial
    The first official paid TV commercial was aired from the New York station WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.

  • First Successful Colored TV

    First Successful Colored TV
    The patent for the colored TV was first mentioned in 1904. It was eventually taken on by Vladimir K. Zworkin, a Russian inventor, and eventually was created by a company called RCA.

  • First Remote Control

    First Remote Control
    A man named Robert Adler invented the first wireless TV remote. He called it the "Space command"

  • First Music Video Broadcasted

    First Music Video Broadcasted

  • First Digital Television

    First Digital Television
    Using the digital technology that was out at the time, the system was created for transmitting and receiving TV signals. By the late 2000s this TV had become the norm.

  • First 3D Television Sold to the Public

    First 3D Television Sold to the Public
    The design for the first 3D TV was demonstrated back in 1928, but it wasn't until 2010 that they made it possible to obtain a 3D experience from the comfort of your own home.