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The word television was first used at the 1900 Paris Exhibition
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C.Francis Jebnkins transmits still pictures by wireless with a mechanical system
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Kenjiro Takayanagi starts his television work in Japan.
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Baird gets his first license to transmit television in London
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Baird transmits from London to New York City, using his mechanical system.
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Germant begins what they call the"first televsion broadasting service in the world".
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Berlin Olympics tlevised by Telefunken and Fernseh, using RCA and Farnsworth equipment, respectively.
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BBC begins two-year Baird-EMI competition, broadcasting from Alexandra Palace. It is the "world's first, public, regular, high-definition TV station".
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Baird declares EMI the winner of the competition
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Sarnoff announces from the New York World's Fair that "Now we have added sight to sound". Ten days later, at the opening ceremonies, FDR is the first president to be televised, TV sets go on sale the following day.
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FCC announced September 1st start date for commercial television, but canceled that decision when RCA began advertising early.
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NBC was the first commercialy sponsored broadcast. CBS, DuMont and others followed in the Fall.
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All commercial production of television equipment is banned for the rest of the war. NBC's commercial TV schedule is cancelled. Limited broadcasting does continue, however, throughout the war years, in a few cities, for a few hours per week.
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CBS gave the FCC a demonstration of their mechanical color system.
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RCA flooded the market with black & white sets to slow the potential launch of the CBS color.
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Pye television sets up a demonstration at the Australian " Royal Easter Show" held in Sydney. Six years ahead of the first public broadcasts.
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Sarnoff ordered stepped-up development of an all-electronic RCA color system. Perfected system is ready by December 1950.
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Farnsworth Radio and Television is sold to ITT. Philo Farnsworth, at age 43, suffering from alcoholism, was no longer a part of the television industry.
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All color TV production is suspended for the duration of the Korean conflict.
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CBS gives victory to RCA in color war.
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RCA places a all color set on the market for 1,000. 5,000 were sold.
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The first Plasma television was made by Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson
