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Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
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Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
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Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a selenium camera that would allow people to see by electricity.
Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube. -
he was the first person to create tv
