The History of TV

By gmoats2
  • First Still Image Transferred

    First Still Image Transferred

    Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
  • “Cathode Rays” Coined

    “Cathode Rays” Coined

    Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube.
  • 18 Lines of Resolution

    18 Lines of Resolution

    Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
  • And We Called It Television

    And We Called It Television

    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."
  • First Mechanical Television System

    First Mechanical Television System

    Boris Rosing combines Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV system.
  • Early Electronic Systems

    Early Electronic Systems

    Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images. Independent of each other, they both develop electronic scanning methods of reproducing images.

  • First Moving Silhouette Images

    John Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk.

  • Long Distance TV

    Bell Telephone and the U.S. Department of Commerce conduct the first long distance use of television that took place between Washington D.C. and New York City on April 9th.
  • First Electronic TV

    First Electronic TV

    Vladimir Zworkin demonstrates the first practical electronic system for both the transmission and reception of images using his new kinescope tube.

  • First Commercial

    Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial.
  • BBC

    BBC

    About 200 hundred television sets are in use world-wide.
    The BBC begins regular TV transmissions.
  • Color Televsion

    Color Televsion

    Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated his color television system to the FCC. His system produced color pictures by having a red-blue-green wheel spin in front of a cathode ray tube.
  • One Million Homes

    One Million Homes

    One million homes in the United States have television sets.
  • The Remote Control

    The Remote Control

    Robert Adler invents the first practical remote control called the Zenith Space Commander.
  • First Presidential Debate

    First Presidential Debate

    The first presidential debate was aired. People changed the way they viewed the presidental canidates Nixon and Kennedy
  • First TV Satellite

    First TV Satellite

    AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts - broadcasts are now internationally relayed.
  • Walter Cronkite

    Walter Cronkite

    Walter Cronkite, demonstrating a prototype of a television communication set that may be used in the future for a globally connected library system
  • Moon Television

    Moon Television

    July 20, first TV transmission from the moon and 600 million people watch.

  • One Billion TVs

    A billion TV sets world-wide.
  • Transisition to HD

    Transisition to HD

    All televisions make the transisition to HD