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The History of Television

By allhailkinghamlet
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    Era of Electronic Inventions

    Scientists began working with electronics to make life better. They knew very little about electricity and how it worked. Retrieved from: http://www.softschools.com/timelines/television_timeline/31/

  • Pantelegraph

    Pantelegraph
    Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents the pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires. This was similar to how to telephone transfers sound. Retrieved from: http://www.softschools.com/timelines/television_timeline/31/

  • Pictures to Signals

    Two English telegraph engineers, Willoughby Smith and his assistant Joseph May experimented with Selenium and light. They noted that when selenium was exposed to light, its electrical resistance decreased. From this, they discovered the means to transform images into electric signals. Selenium became the basis for the manufacture of photoelectric cells, and the television. Retrieved from: http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/element.php?sym=Se

  • Invention of the Photophone

    Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the Photophone. It could transfer sound, but they aimed for it to do the same with pictures at a higher quality. Retrieved from: http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Photophone.html

  • The 'Nipkow Disk'

    The 'Nipkow Disk'
    Paul Nipkow was the first person to create a rotating disk as a mechanical scanner, which was the chief basis of mechanical television. He conceptualized the idea of the rotating disk that was used as a scanning device to scan images. One rotation of the disk was equal to one frame on television. The picture resolution was only 18 lines and thus very poor. This was the foundation of television systems. Retrieved from: http://www.thehistoryoftelevision.com/inventors.html

  • The Naming of the 'Television'

    The first "television" was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris. Here, the 1st International Congress of Electricity took place, where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television." Retrieved from: http://courses.washington.edu/pioneers/tv.html

  • A New Kind of Television

    A New Kind of Television
    Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggested to use cathode ray tubes to transmit images, independent of each other. They found that they both develop electronic scanning methods to reproduce images. Retrieved from: http://courses.washington.edu/pioneers/tv.html

  • The "Moving Picture"

    The "Moving Picture"
    A scientist from Scotland, named John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. It was called the moving picture, and paved the way for movies and TV shows. Retrieved from: http://www.softschools.com/timelines/television_timeline/31/

  • The First Television Station

    The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television station license called W3XK owned by Charles Jenkins. Retrieved from: http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Television_Time_3.htm

  • First Major Television Network

    First Major Television Network
    CBS was the first major television network. Retrieved from: http://www.wsmb.org/page.asp?navid=22&Print=True

  • First Colour TV

    First Colour TV
    CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program. Unfortunately, not many could watch it on their black-and-white televisions. Retrieved from: www.earlytelevision.org/color.html‎

  • TV From the Moon

    TV From the Moon
    Neil Armstrong was the first person to 'step' onto the moon and the whole world watched through their television sets. This was the beginning of the TV revolution. Retrieved from: http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/armstrong.html

  • Flat Screen TV

    Flat Screen TV
    The developers at Panasonic developed and released the flat screen TV. It quickly became popular and took over the TV market. Retrieved from: http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=1257765