Television

By blackninja2800

  • Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism

    Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism to jumpstarts the era of electronic communication.

  • May and Smith's experiment with selenium and light

    Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.

  • Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison theorize about telephone devices

    Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison theorize about telephone devices that transmit image as well as sound.
    Bell's Photophone used light to transmit sound and he wanted to advance his device for image sending.

  • We Called It Television

    At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. This is where the Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."

  • BBC

    The first known chanel was made and the first commercial was broadcasted.

  • Rural Area's introduced to TV

    Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania as a means of bringing television to rural areas. A patent was granted to Louis W. Parker for a low-cost television receiver. One million homes in the United States have television sets.