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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the Photophone. It could transfer sound, but they aimed for it to do the same with pictures at a higher quality.
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A man named Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through wires. He used a rotating disk to move the pictures.
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The first "television" was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris.
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A scientist from Scotland, named John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. It was called the moving picture, and paved the way for movies and TV shows.
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The first long distance television test ran between Washington D.C. and New York.
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The first station was named W3XK. It was owned by Charles Jenkins.
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CBS was the first major TV network.
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Color TV had been in development for many years. It was finally released to the public in 1950.
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Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and the whole world saw through their television sets. The TV revolution had begun.
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Developers at Panasonic developed and released the flat screen TV. It quickly took over the TV market.
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In 2009 the American people made the switch to all-digital television viewing.
