History of Television

Discovery of Photoconductivity of Selenium

Feb 20, 1873

Discovered by Willoughby Smith

Invention of Scanning Disk

Feb 20, 1884

Made by Nipkow

Nipkow Patents tv system

Feb 20, 1884

German college student patents first electromechanical television system, but didn't build a full model. Variations of his spinning disk were used to create televisions.

Baird Demonstrates TV

Mar 25, 1926

First public demonstration of televised images.

Baird Continues

Feb 20, 1927

First transatlantic television signal

Programs

Jul 2, 1928

First regularly scheduled program only in half tones. It was experimental.

Electric Tv Begins

Feb 20, 1930

Electronic TV ready

Feb 20, 1941

Used cathode ray tube and iconoscope to produce 525 line images.

US Innovates TV

Sep 4, 1951

First live broadcast. Harry Truman's speech in San Francisco

Tournament of Rose Parade

Jan 1, 1954

First national color tv broadcast

HDTV

Feb 20, 1993

First introduced in America.

TV sets are advanced

Feb 20, 2009

Most are complete with free tv signal and are able to pay for additional cable or HD channels.

3D TVs

Feb 20, 2011

3D ready television sets with glasses that didnt require red and blue lenses.

Bendable tv

Feb 20, 2014

Samsung creates tv that bends.