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TV thru time

By jorhopf
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    1843-1846

    Scottish inventor Alexander Bain introduced the facsimile machine which mechanically scanned graphics and put them on a screen

  • 1851

    1851
    English physicist Fredrick Bakewell demonstrated a working version in 1851.

  • 1876

    1876
    an English engineer Willoughby Smith, discovered the photoconductivity of selenium, helping mechanical TV het more advanced.

  • 1897

    1897
    The first Color TV was patented in 1897 by Polish inventor Jan Szczepanik, but had no way of scanning colors.

  • 1927

    1927
    The first successful electronic television was designed in 1927 by a 21-year-old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. While in high school he begun to devise a way to capture moving images in a form that could be transmitted thru radio waves and be coded onto a screen.

  • 1928

    Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the first colored VT on July 3, 1928.

  • 1929

    1929
    Mechanically scanned color television was also demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929

  • 1994

    1994
    Smart TV was first patented in 1994 and was not very different from modern ones.

  • 2000s

    Digital TV transition started in the late 2000s