Timeline: History of Television

Sep 7, 1927

Experiments in pictures

Electronic television was first debut by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor, who lived in a house without electricity untill he was 14. His system sucessfully trasferred a picture coded in radio waves that could be replicated in another location. Other inventors such as Boris Rossing were also working with picutre replication.

Oct 6, 1927

First Talking Film

The first talking movie "The Jazz Singer" is released.

Apr 30, 1939

First Electronic Television event

RCA invested $50 million into develpoed of television. RCA televised the opening of the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York, including a speech by President Roosevelt.

Apr 1, 1940

Television off to a rough start

In April 1940, there was only about 2000 television sets in America. However, this was an improvement from 1939.

Jun 6, 1944

World War 2

When World War 2 happened, television sales dropped. The manufacturing of televisions mostly stopped, but broadcasting continued. In Britain, all television manufacturing and broadcasting stopped.

Jun 23, 1948

Stratovision

First proposed in 1946 Strotovision was to bring television to rural communities. Basically, a plane flew over an area carrying a transmitter, but was made obsolete by cable networks.

May 6, 1950

Broadcasting Stations

In America, there are 103 Tv stations in about 60 cities.

Jun 6, 1953

Color Television

After much controversy over the CBS and RCA television sets, the FCC decides to adopt the RCA version as the standerd.

Jun 9, 1957

Remote Control

In 1957 the first practical remote was created. It was created by Robert Adler and it was called the Space Commander. It was proudced by Zentih. It didn't work well if the sun shone between the remote and the T.V.

Jun 9, 1962

TELSTAR satellite

The first Transatlantic television receptionhappened after the launch of the TELSTAR satellite. It occured between Andover, MN and Pleumeur-Bodou, France.