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German inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow developed the rotating disk technology which is one of television's scanning principle.
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German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun invented the cathode ray tube which was the basis for advent in electronic television.
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Charles Francis Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called Radiovision.
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The first electronic television was invented by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth thinking of transforming moving images into code.
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America's first commercially produced TV systems were produced and based off of the mechanical design by John Baird.
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John Logie Baird sent the first television transmission across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Charles Francis Jenkins created the first television station called
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The Intercarrier Sound System was invented by Louis W. Parker to synchronize sound in television.
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Russian inventor Zworykin patented the idea for an all-electronic color television system. Commercial broadcasting for color television systems began by company RCA.
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Inventors, Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Wilson, invented small cells containing electrically charged ionized gas to make better quality. Originally used for the PLATO computer system.
