Technology

  • First Still Image Transferred

    First Still Image Transferred

    Abbe Giovanna Caselli uses his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transfer a still image.
  • Photophone

    Photophone

    Alexander Graham Bell wants to advance his phone ,that uses light to transmit sound, to transfer images as well.
  • First Mechanical Television System

    First Mechanical Television System

    Lee de Forest invents the Audion vacuum tube which is the first tube that can amplify signals.
  • First Moving Silhouette Images

    First Moving Silhouette Images

    Charles Jenkins and John Baird demonstrate the transmission of images over wire circuts
  • First Long Distance use of Television

    First Long Distance use of Television

    Bell Telephone Company and the U.S. Department of Commerce conduct first long distance use of television. The transmission took place between Washington D.C. and New York City.
  • First Television Station

    First Television Station

    Charles Jenkins was the first to recieve a television license for the Federal Radion Commission.
  • Iowa State University

    Iowa State University

    ISU broadcast television programs twice a week.
  • Color Television

    Color Television

    The FCC approves the first color tv.
  • Moon Transmission

    Moon Transmission

    600 million people watch the fisrt televised transmission from the moon.
  • HDTV

    HDTV

    ATSC gets approval from the FCC for the first HDTV