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Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism jumpstarts the era of electronic communication.
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1862 First Still Image Transferred Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
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1873 Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
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1876 Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a selenium camera that would allow people to see by electricity.
Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube. -
1881 Sheldon Bidwell experiments with his Telephotography that was similiar to Bell's Photophone.
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1900 And We Called It Television
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." -
A guy drew A Ccartoon by hand it was about a guy and an elephant. it was black and white.
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1930 Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial.
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1933 Iowa State University (W9XK) starts broadcasting twice weekly television programs in cooperation with radio station WSUI.
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1956 Robert Adler invents the first practical remote control called the Zenith Space Commander. It was proceeded by wired remotes and units that failed in sunlight.
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We have nice vizeo tv's.
