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The origins of what would become today's television system can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884, John Logie Baird's demonstration of televised moving images in 1926 and Philo Farnsworth's Image dissector in 1927
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The first documentary re-creation, Sigmund Lubin's one-reel The Unwritten Law (1907) (subtitled "A Thrilling Drama Based on the Thaw-White Tragedy") dramatized the true-life murder -- on June 25, 1906
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In 1911, engineer Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton gave a speech in London, reported in The Times (UK), describing in great detail how distant electric vision could be achieved by using cathode ray tubes at both the transmitting and receiving ends. The speech, which expanded on a letter he wrote to the journal Nature in 1908, was the first iteration of the electronic television method that is still used today.
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In 1911, Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin created a television system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit
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1927 by Philo Farnsworth
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The Queen's Messenger, a drama broadcast in 1928.
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By 1928, Farnsworth had developed the system sufficiently to hold a demonstration for the press, televising a motion picture film. In 1929, the system was further improved by elimination of a motor generator, so that his television system now had no mechanical parts
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In 1931 RCA introduced an improved camera tube that relied on Tihanyi's designs and patents
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Since the 1940s television has become the window on the world for much of industrialized society.
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In 1941 the United States implemented 525-line television.[
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The world's first 625-line TV standard was designed in the Soviet Union in 1944 and became a national standard in 1946
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the start of talk shows' golden age can be considered in 1948, even though the television wasn't common in American homes until the 1950s.
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A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC on December 17, 1953 based on a system designed by RCA.
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n fact, the LCD TV was first presented to the public by Fergason's team in 1971. Heilmeier went on to various upper-governmental posts. Fergason went on to found his own company and garner some 100 patents related to LCD TV technology. LCD TV has become the cornerstone in the greater $10 billion industry LCD TV technology now represents.
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TVNZ was established in 1980, through the merger of Television One and TV2
