tv

first tv

Dec 7, 1884

the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 and John Logie Baird's demonstration of televised moving images in 1926.(wikapedia)

created tv system that used a mechanical mirror drum scanner to transmit

Dec 7, 1909

Fournier in Paris in 1909, using a rotating mirror-drum as the scanner and a matrix of 64 selenium cells as the receiver.[5] (Wikapedia)

first tv set to go on sale

Dec 7, 1928

In television's electromechanical era, commercially made television sets were sold from 1928 to 1934 in the United Kingdom,[100] United States, and the Soviet Union(Wikipedia)

introduced improved camera tube

Dec 7, 1933

In 1933 RCA introduced an improved camera tube that relied on Tihanyi's charge storage principle (Wikipedia)

first olypics on tv

Dec 7, 1936

In 1936 the Olympic Games in Berlin were carried by cable to television stations in Berlin and Leipzig where the public could view the games live (Wikipedia)

first colour tv

Dec 7, 1941

the first ever colour tv was demonstrated on 1941 (Wikipedia)

first tv demonstration

Sep 6, 1952

. The first broadcast was on September 6, 1952 from its Montreal, Quebec station CBFT. The premiere broadcast was bilingual, spoken in English and French (Wikipedia)

first remote

Dec 7, 1955

The remote, called "Lazy Bones", was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the "Flashmatic", was developed in 1955.(Wikipedia)

first plasma screen

Dec 9, 1964

The very first prototype for a plasma display monitor was invented in July 1964 at the University of Illinois by professors Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow (Wikipedia)

first year colour tvs went on sale

Dec 7, 1971

1971 was the first year that sales of color TVs in the US exceeded B&W ones. In other countries, color was slower to arrive and did not become common in Western Europe until the '80s.