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Electromagnetism
Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday work on electromagnetism, jumpstarting the era of electronic communication. -
First Still image transfered
Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires. -
Electronic Signals
Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals. -
Selenium camera
Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a selenium camera that would allow people to see by electricity. -
Designing the Telectroscope
Scientists and engineers like Paiva, Figuier, and Senlecq were suggesting alternative designs for Telectroscopes. -
Photophone
Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison theorize about telephone devices thaat transmit sounds as well as images. Bell's Photophone used light to transmit sound and he wanted to advance his device for image sending. -
Telephotography
Sheldon Bidwell experiments with his Telephotography that was similiar to Bell's Photophone. -
"Televison"
At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television." -
Cable Tv
Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the late 1940's. -
Childrens TV shows
The American Broadcasting Company first aired Saturday morning TV shows for children on August 19, 1950. -
Color TV
The first successful color television system began commercial broadcasting on December 17, 1953 based on a system designed by RCA. -
The Remote Control
It was in June of 1956, that the TV remote controller first entered the American home. The first TV remote control called "Lazy Bones," was developed in 1950 by Zenith Electronics Corporation (then known as Zenith Radio Corporation). -
Plasma TV
he very first prototype for a plasma display monitor was invented in 1964 by Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson. -
Web TV
Web tv was rolled out in 1996 -
Ultra HD TV
Ultra HD TVs are the newest edition of television in tv technologies. It holds 4k Ultra high definition, delivering four times the picture resolution of 1080p Full HD, that's eight million pixels compared to two million pixels.
