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American inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison start working on a telephone system that could transmit image. -
German technician and inventor Paul Nipkow managed to transmit static image with 18 horizontal lines of resolution. His “Electric Telescope” quickly became the basis of many future mechanical television designs. -
Boris Rosing managed to improve Nipkow’s “Electric Telescope” and produce first fully working mechanical TV system. -
Work on electric television continued with both Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing managing to improve the work of cathode ray tubes. -
Scotland scientists Charles Jenkins and John Baird managed to demonstrate their image transmitting methods, in both mechanical and electrical form. John Baird then made television system with 30 lines of horizontal resolution and 5 frames per second. -
Vladimir Zworkin produces cheap electrical system that can both transmit and receive video images. -
First commercial aired on Charles Jenkins’s television program, BBC begins its regular TV transmission. -
Television was showcased in many fairs across America, with some models having radio for those who wanted to hear audio together with the image. 343 lines of resolution TV was introduced. -
Cable television comes to rural parts of United States, television hardware become cheaper enabling 1 million homes to have one set. -
FCC approves first two color television standards. -
Introduction of first practical videotape by Ampex, and first practical remote control by Robert Adler. -
600 million watched live transmission of first human landing on the moon. -
Japanese television company NHK introduced television system with 1125 lines of horizontal resolution – first HD television. -
Sporadic network transmission of stereo audio began on NBC on July 26, 1984, with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, although at the time only the network's New York City flagship station, WNBC, had stereo broadcast capability. -
The FCC approves ATSC's HDTV standard. Billion TV sets world-wide.