Motion Pictures

  • "rabbit ears"
    1953 BCE

    "rabbit ears"

    Marvin Middlemark invented "rabbit ears", antennae
  • 1953 BCE

    Colors

    The first successful color television system began broadcasting
  • 1948 BCE

    Louis Parker

    Louis Parker invented the modern changeable T.V. reciever
  • 1923 BCE

    Radiovision

    Charles Jenkins invented a mechanical T.V. system called radio-vision
  • 1920 BCE

    John Logie Baird

    Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for T.V.
  • 1907 BCE

    electronic television

    An electronic television system was built using a cathode ray tube by English inventor A.A.
  • 1897 BCE

    oscilloscope

    German scientist, Karl Braun, invented the cathode ray tube oscilloscope
  • Nipkow disc
    1884 BCE

    Nipkow disc

    German inventor, Paul Nipkow, developed a rotating-disc technology to send pictures over wire called the Nipkow disc

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