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Scientist started to work with electronics. They knew very little about electricity and how it worked.
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A long change in time...
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Abbe Giovanna Caselli invented the Pantelegraph. It could transfer an image through wires similar to the way telephone wires transfer sound.
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Two scientists Smith and May experimented with selenium. It helped them figure out that they could transform pictures into signals to be sent over wires more eaisly.
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George Carey dreams of a machine that people would use in there homes to view pictures.
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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the Photophone. It could transfer sound, but they aimed for it to do the same with pictures at a higher quality.
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Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through wires. He used a rotating disk to move the pictures.
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The first "television" was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris.
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Scientists developed a new way to work the television. It used something called cathode rays and a vacuum tube.
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A scientist from Scotland, named John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. It was called the moving picture, and paved the way for movies and TV shows.
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The first long distance televison test ran between Washington D.C and New York.
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The first station was named W3XK. It was owned by Charles Jenkins.
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At first the TV reach was very small. By 1936 there were 200 sets in use, but that number quickly grew.
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CBS was the first major TV network
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TV's were tested at the World Fair in 1939 to the market for the public. One of the first TV brands were RCA.
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Color TV has been in development for many years. It was finally released to the public in 1950.
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Niel Armstrong stepped onto the moon and the whole world saw from their television sets. The TV revolution has begun.
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Devlopers at Pansonic developed and released the flat screen TV. It quickly took over the TV market.
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In 2009 the American people made the switch to all digital TV screening
