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Television

By vj weldon
  • First still Image

    First still Image

    First still image captured and transferred
  • Let there be light

    Let there be light

    scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
  • And then there was sound

    And then there was sound

    Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison theorize about telephone devices that transmit image as well as sound.

  • Are those images I see?

    Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
  • They call it Television

    They call it Television

  • We're getting there youre on to something

    Lee de Forest invents the Audion vacuum tube that proved essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ability to amplify signals.
  • Okay so we got a studio :) But....

    Okay so we got a studio :) But....

    John Baird opens the first TV studio, however, the image quality was poor.
  • Here come the Brits

    Here come the Brits

    Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial.
    The BBC begins regular TV transmissions.
  • The numbers are starting to grow

    The numbers are starting to grow

    200 televisions are in use in the world
  • CBS

    CBS

    CBS begins its TV development
  • WE HAVE COLOR

    WE HAVE COLOR

    The FCC approves the first color television standard which is replaced by a second in 1953.
    Vladimir Zworkin developed a better camera tube called the Vidicon.