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Timeline of The Television 1 - Timeline Help
Timeline of The Television one of three from 1831 to 1926 at Timeline Help.
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- 1926 | The work of Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday creates the ability to communicate electronically.
The Pantelegraph is invented by Abbe Giovanna Caselli. The first still image is transmitted over wires.
Experiments with light and selenium by scientists May and Smith prove that images can be transformed into electronic signals. An important invention in this timeline of the television.
George Carey, a civil servant in Boston, Massachusetts, designed a complete television system and submitted drawings for a "selenium camera" that let people see by electricity.
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell put forth theories about telephones that would transmit both images and sound. The Photophone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, transmitted sound using light. He wanted the device to also send images. Sheldon Bidwell's Telephotography was similar. George Carey builds an elementary system of his idea with light-sensitive cells.
Images are sent over wires using a technology using a rotating metal disk. Paul Nipkow, the inventor, called this an electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
The word "television" is coined at the World's Fair in Paris, France.
The Audion vacuum tube is invented by Lee de Forest. This invention proves essential to the future of electronics. This tube amplified sound. Boris Rosing combines the mechanical disk from Nipkow's invention with a cathode ray tube and creates the first working mechanical television system.
Vladimir Zworkin patents the Iconoscope.
John Baird of Scotland is the first person to transmit a moving silhouette image on his mechanical system based on Nipkow' spinning disks. Charles Jenkins of the United States builds his Radiovisor. By 1931, it is marketed as a kit and sold to consumers. Vladimir Zworkin submits his patent for a color television system.
John Baird runs a system with 30 lines of resolution that uses 5 frames per second. The Federal Radio Commission (later known as the FCC) is created. | Timeline of The Television 1 2 3
| Bibliography of the Timeline of The Television Abramson, A (2007). History of TV, 1942-2000.
Barnouw, E (1990). Tube of Plenty. Evolution of American Television.
Green, P (2006). History of Television's the Virginian 1962-1971.
Bignell, J (2009). European TV History.
Haralovich, M, Hilmes, M, Williams, M and Luckett, M (1999). TV, History and American Culture. Feminist Critical Essays. |
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