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Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's electromagnetism jumpstarts the era of electronic communication
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Abbe Giovanna invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still imagw over wires
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Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope
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At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."
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Boris Rosing combines Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV system.
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John Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk.
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John Baird operates a television system with 30 lines of resolution system running at 5 frames per second.
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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
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Philo Farnsworth, files for a patent on the first complete electronic television system, which he called the Image Dissector.
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The first experimental coaxial cable lines were laid by AT&T between New York and Philadelphia
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Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resolution color television system.
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The first regular installation connected Minneapolis and Stevens Point, WI
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Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania as a means of bringing television to rural areas.
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Robert Adler invents the first practical remote control called the Zenith Space Commander.
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Giant screen projection TV is first marketed.
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The FCC approves ATSC's HDTV standard.
