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Electronic Communication
Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism jumpstarts the era of electronic communication in 1831.
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Mechanical Television
Charles Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923. http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Television.htm -
Electronic Television
Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
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24/7 Television
On July 21, 1931 the first regular 7 days a week television schedule was introduced by CBS’s New York station.
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First transcontinental television broadcast
President Harry S. Truman’s opening speech before a conference in San Francisco is broadcast across the nation, marking the first time a television program was broadcast from coast to coast.
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Cable TV!
Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the late 1940's. The first successful color television system began commercial broadcasting on December 17, 1953 based on a system designed by RCA.
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Colour Television
Color TV was by no means a new idea, a German patent in 1904 contained the earliest proposal, while in 1925 Zworykin filed a patent disclosure for an all-electronic color television system. A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC on December 17, 1953 based on a system invented by RCA.
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Remote Controls
It was in June of 1956, that the TV remote controller first entered the American home. The first TV remote control called "Lazy Bones," was developed in 1950 by Zenith Electronics Corporation (then known as Zenith Radio Corporation).
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Web/internet TV
Web TV hd a big imapct on TV communcation, as people no longer had to own a TV, and they could still get access to one through their computers.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_web_tv.htm
