Television Timeline

  • George Carey comes up with an idea

    George Carey comes up with an idea
    George Carey dreams of a machine people can use to view pictures from their homes.
  • Invention of the Photophone

    Invention of the Photophone
    Alexander Graham Bell came up with the idea of the photo phone, it transfers sounds
  • Technology is working

    Technology is working
    Paul Nipkow figure out a way how to send multiple pictures through wires.
  • Technology is named

    Technology is named
    The first television was seen in the World fair in Paris.
  • TV testing

    TV testing
    The first long distance television tested ran through Washington D.C. and New York.
  • Color Television

    Color Television
    The FCC approves the first color TV in 1950.
  • Bitzer and Slottow invents the prototype flat screen TV

    Bitzer and Slottow invents the prototype flat screen TV
    The first prototype flat screen TV was invented in 1964. The invention would be made public later that same year.