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Paul Nipkow creates first image displayer
It sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution. -
Lee de Forest invents the Mechanical Television System
The Audion vacuum tube that proved essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ability to amplify signals -
Fisrt long distance tv
Bell Telephone and the U.S. Department of Commerce conduct the first long distance use of television that took place between Washington D.C. and New York City on April 7th. -
First commerical and regular aired tv
Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial. The BBC begins regular TV transmissions. -
High defintion tv
CBS begins its TV development. The BBC begins high definition broadcasts in London. -
Color tv is demorsted to public
Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated his color television system to the FCC. His system produced color pictures by having a red-blue-green wheel spin in front of a cathode ray tube. -
Cable is invented
Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania as a means of bringing television to rural areas. -
A billion TV sets world-wide
An avergae one to two tv sets per house in america
