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People named Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's worked with electromagnetism and jumpstart the era of electronic communication.
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There were a lot of things that led up to the making of movies.
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Scentists and inventors come up with new ideas with light and wires. Then they create ways to transmit sound and find out a lot of things.
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At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."
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Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian emigrant Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.
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American Charles Jenkins and John Baird from Scotland, each demonstrate the mechanical transmissions of images over wire circuits. John Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system based on a special disk.
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The first movies were made without sound. Then they fixed that and then the movies had sound.
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Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resolution color television system
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A company introduced the first good videotape system of broadcast quality.
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AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts - broadcasts are now internationally relayed.
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Super VHS introduced.
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The FCC approves ATSC's HDTV standard. A billion TV sets world-wide.
