motion pictures

  • trasmiting picturers

    trasmiting picturers
    German, Paul Nipkow developed a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884 called the Nipkow disk. Paul Nipkow was the first person to discover television's scanning principle, in which the light intensities of small portions of an image are successively analyzed and transmitted.
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    history motion pictures

  • using arrays rods

    using arrays rods
    In the 1920's, John Logie Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television
  • invented radiovision

    invented radiovision
    Charles Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923
  • first inventor to trasmit television image

    first inventor to trasmit television image
    In 1927, Philo Farnsworth was the first inventor to transmit a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines. The image transmitted was a dollar sign. Farnsworth developed the dissector tube, the basis of all current electronic televisions. He filed for his first television patent in 1927 (#1,773,980).
  • improve cathode-ray tube-kinescope

    improve cathode-ray tube-kinescope
    Russian inventor, Vladimir Zworykin invented an improved cathode-ray tube called the kinescope in 1929. The kinescope tube was sorely needed for television.
  • cable television

    cable television
    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
  • changeable televisin

    changeable televisin
    Louis Parker invented the modern changeable television receiver. The patent was issued to Louis Parker in 1948.
  • first tv remote

    first tv remote
    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).
  • plasma display monitor

    plasma display monitor
    The very first prototype for a plasma display monitor was invented in 1964 by Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson.