Television

By denawatson

  • First mechanicle module of television invented

    In the late 1800's, Paul Nipkow ( A German student) created the first television which, with the help of a rotating metal disk, could send images through wires. This had 18 lines of resolution, and was called the electric telescope.

  • Cathode Ray experiment

    In 1907, two inventors; A.A. campbell-Swinton, and Boris Rosing used a cathode ray tube to create a new television system. Now mechanical and electronic television existed.

  • Moving pictures.

    John Baird successfully transmittedmoving pictures through the mechanical system created by Nipkow. Baird also created the first tv studio.

  • working model of electronic tv

    Philo Farnsworth created a working model of an electonic tv based on the work Swinton did.

  • experimental broadcast

    Around the 1930's, we began broadcasting things like wrestling, music, and dance.

  • Converted to electronic tv

    By 1934, all tv systems converted to the electronic system (what we use now)

  • NBC tv studios was created

    The NBC tv studios opened in Rockafeller plaza, this is when the network television was introduced. SHortly after, CBS started broadcasting from their studios in Grand Central Station.

  • First televised Major League Baseball Game

  • sitcoms began being televised

    such as I love Lucy

  • First color tv

    only used the three primary colors

  • First new broadcast

    A young gir fell down a well and tv networks provided continous coverage of the event fror 27 hours

  • Police, hospital, and courthouse drama televised

  • Filmed drama rather than live tv

  • Davy Crockett was televised

    goldmine for tv

  • Color tv's began being sold

  • Game shows were televised

  • Western and Urban sitcoms

  • First flatscreen ever created

    by two professors (Slottow and Bitzer) They were working on a computer application at the time, and when rendering graphics, realized that the traditional monitor was no efficient for them. They worked with plasma technology, then other companies shortly after began using this same tehnology for television.

  • First flat panel LED tv

  • First HD broadcast

  • World's largest 3D tv made by panasonic