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Phillipe Jacques de loutherbourg creates the Edophusikon which uses moving pictures to represent natural phenomena
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Thomas Young formulates the wave theory of light
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Dr.William Hyde Wollaston invetns the "Camera Lucida", which projects the virtual image of an object onto a screen.
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Joseph Plateau invents a toy called the Phantascope. This was considred the fist motion picture device.
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Alexander Bain shows the "Pantelegraph" which is an electrical method for transmitting images over a distance.
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Thomas Du Mont patents the camera zootropica which reporoduced the phases of movement in a 12 successive image.
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2 scientists May and Smith expierment with the photoconductivity of selenium and light and trasform images into electronic signals.
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One of the earliest examples of remote control was developed by Nikola Tesla
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Boris Rosing combines Paul Nipow`s disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working MECHANICAL TV system.
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The first TV is shown.
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Television is introdudced in the U.S.
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One million homes in the U.S. have televison sets.
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Color televison is introduced in the U.S.
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98%of U.S. households have at least one televison set.
