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A sketch of a television was made in 1878 called the “Telephonoscope.” At the time, it was completely fiction, and was popularised through literal fictional depictions. However, at the same time, it showed actual scientific theories. The idea of transmitting images electrically that the television now uses was inspired by the Fax Machine in early 1843, which transmitted images over wires. -
An American inventor, Charles Jenkin was able to transmit pictures of Herbert Hoover across America, showcasing the future for television. -
On October 2nd, 1925, another groundbreaking milestone was accomplished. John Logee Baird transformed silhouettes of his early model of a TV into a device that could transmit images of the same color (monochromatic) -
The President of American Telephone spoke through America in which they were able to see each others face. This was important to television as it shows face-to-face recognition, and the ability to carry sound. -
On September 7, 1927, Philo Taylor Farnsworth made history through demonstration of a fully functional all-electronic image pickup device, which is known as the “image dissector.” It used a vacuum tube that could reproduce images electronically by shooting a beam of electrons to every line against a light-sensitive screen. It could be classified as a T.V, but it was more like a video camera tube. -
On November 8th, 1928, the federal radio commission issued their first television station -
BBC began to regularly stream television. -
At the Worlds Fair in 1939, an exhibition to showcase achievements of nations, the 1st Presidential speech was shown on a television. -
Peter Goldmark introduced a color television system. While small, being on 343 lines, it marked a new version of television. -
In 1948, televisions became mainstream, and about 1 million homes in the U.S had televisions. -
On January 1st, 1956, the first television remote was created by Robert Alder, named "The Lazy Bones" -
Ampex developed and introduced the first videotape system, which allowed you to record and watch television everywhere around the globe. -
ATT launched their first TV satellite on July 10th, 1962, which allowed people from everywhere around the world. -
By November 8th, 1967, mostly all television companies changed from black and white to color. -
S-VHS was introduced in 1977, showcasing new resolution and allowing television to have higher quality videos. -
The first music video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" was aired on T.V and was said to be the birth of the modern music video era, a huge jump for television. -
By the end of 1988, about 98% of US households had access to a television set.
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Closed Captioning became so popular and useful to the point where every TV set required it. -
DVD and DVD players went on sale. -
HD Televisions started to go on sale. -
By this date, every analog TV went black, and digital TVs were the only TVs that worked. -
Companies like Samsung started to introduce Smart Televisions which allowed you to access the internet, apps, and allow information on your computer to transmit to a television.