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Electronic television
In 1897, J. J. Thomson, an English physicist in his three famous experiments, was able to deflect cathode rays, a fundamental function of the modern CRT. -
Kenjiro Takayanagi
On December 25, 1925, Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrated a television system with a 40-line resolution that employed a Nipkow disk scanner and CRT display at Hamamatsu Industrial High School in Japan. -
The first electronic television picture
At the beginning of the twentieth century, few American laboratories were leading the way: Bell, RCA, and GE. It wasn't until 1927, when Philo Farnsworth, beat everyone by producing the first electronic television picture. -
New NBC TV studios
It wasn't until the 1939 World's Fair in New York, where RCA unveiled their new NBC TV studios in Rockefeller Plaza, that network television was introduced. -
Cable TV
Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the late 1940's. -
Origins of Children's Programming
The American Broadcasting Company first aired Saturday morning TV shows for children on August 19, 1950. -
Storytellers to a Nation
Television devoured more material than radio and motion pictures had ever done, and it was up to writers, performers, producers and directors to keep the ideas coming. -
Color Television
A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC on December 17, 1953 based on a system invented by RCA. -
Japanese MUSE
In the mid-1980s as Japanese consumer electronics firms forged ahead with the development of HDTV technology, and as the MUSE analog format proposed by NHK, a Japanese company, was seen as a pacesetter that threatened to eclipse U.S. electronics companies. -
Digital
Digital TV's roots have been tied very closely to the availability of inexpensive, high performance computers. It wasn't until the 1990s that digital TV became a real possibility -
Smart tv
A first patent was filed in 1994 for an "intelligent" television system, linked with data processing systems, by means of a digital or analog network. -
Flat Screen Tv
