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Paul Nipkow
-He created the "Nipkow Disk". This is a rotating disk that transmits and displays images. -
Kaul Braun
-This German inventor created the electronic television used in televisions we watch today. This television was based off the cathode ray tube. The cathode ray tube is called the CRT. -
Campbell Swinton and Borus Rosing
Borus who was Russian and Campbell who was Scottish developed a television based off the ideas of Paul Nipkow's roatating disks. (this method of the television was eventually replaced with a better version) -
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird patented his idea for using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images. These rods reflected the light. Other versions in the past had previously only used "back-lit silhouettes". (also based of Paul Nipkow's disks) -
Vladimir Zworykin- the proposals of color TV
In 1880, the color television was proposed, but success in creating a television to transmit color came along much later thanks to a man named Vladimir Zworykin. (1925) -
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth is a very important man in the history of the display of motion pictures. He created a dissector tube which is now the basis for all televisions today. This was the first television able to display the money sign ($) and other special characters previously not displayed. In 1927 he filled for his first patent. -
Vladimir Zworykin-kinescope
Only a few years after 1925 in 1927 Viadimir Zworykin made another essential discovery to the production of our modern television. He improved the CRT which is called the kinescope tube. This is a television tube which is necessary to display images and films on the television screen. -
Louis Parker
Louis Parker is the creator of the "intercarrier sound system"."The intercarrier method is a system in television that reduces the cost of transmitters and receiver sets by processing audio and video signals together and minimizing the number of separate stages for audio and video signals." (taken from wikipedia.com) This is used all around the world in are television sets today. -
Childrens Programs
The first children's program children's program aired, and it was now in color! -
Marvin Middlemark
Marvin Middlemark is responsible for the classic "rabbit ears". Who does not love those wonderful antennas sticking out of the television? Fun Fact: he also invented the water powered potato peeler and the rejuvenating tennis ball machine -
1972
Television closed captions were now available, and hidden in the television videos signals. -
World Wide Tv Contact
In 1995, the first television series was available on in the internet and world wide. This program was the public access program ROX.