Television History

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  • The First Still Image Transferred

    The First Still Image Transferred

  • Telephone with Sound and Image

    Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison Imagine a Telephone that Transmits Sound Along with Image

  • Flexible Photographic Film Invented

  • The First Electromechanical Television Set

  • Motion Picture Camera

  • First Motion Pictures Captured

  • Constantin Perskyi Coins the Word "Television"

  • The First Mechanical Television System

  • Cathode Ray Used in Television

  • Creation of a Television System

  • Leon Theremin Developed a Mirror-Based Television

  • Sucessful Transmission of Silhouette Image

  • Baird's First Achievement of Moving Image

  • First Public Demonstration of the Television

  • Baird Develops a Video Recording System

  • First Transatlantic Television Signal Broadcast

  • First Television Station License

  • Demonstration of First Color Transmission

  • John Baird Opened the First TV Studio

  • Charles Jenkins Brodcasts the First Television Commercial

  • BBC Begins Regular Television Transmissions

  • The First Live Transmission on Television

  • First Demonstration of Complete Television

  • CBS Begins its Television Development

  • The World's First Color Broadcast

  • The First Color Television Demonstration

  • Cable Television Introduced for Rural Areas

  • 1 Million Homes in the United States Have Television Sets

  • Robert Adler Invents the First Remote Control

  • First Split Screen Broadcast for Kennedy-Nixon Debates

  • AT&T Launches First Satellite to Carry Television Broadcasts

  • The First Television Transmission from the Moon

  • Half of Televisions in Homes are Color Sets

  • Sony Introduces the First Home Video Cassette Recorder

  • Dolby Surround Sound for Home Sets is Introduced

  • Stereo Television Broadcasts Approved

  • 98% of U.S. Homes Own at Least One Television Set

  • 1 Billion Television Sets World-Wide

  • Digital Satellite Dishes

  • First HDTV Broadcast in the United States

  • DVD Introduced to the Public

  • Flat Screen and HDTV Sales Rise

  • The United States Switches to all Digital Programming

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    Television History

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