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  Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism to start the era of electronic communication.
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  Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents Pantelegraph and is first person to transmit a still image over wires.
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  this is the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
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  goegre carey made a drawing of a camera to see useing electricity
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  Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison thought about a phone that sends pictures
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  Sheldon Bidwell experiments with his Telephotography it was similiar to Bell's Photophone.
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  Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
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  At the World's Fair in Paris,. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."
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  Boris Rosing put Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube together and builds the first working mechanical TV system.
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  tv sets sold world wide