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Evolution of the TV
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The transfer of pictures to signals
Exact date is not specifiied. Willoughby Smith experiemented with selenium. He discovered that he could transform pictures into signals to send over wire. -
photophone
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the Photophone. It could transfer sound, but they wanted it to do the same with pictures at a higher quality. -
First electromechanical television
Date is not specified. Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through wires. He used a rotating disk to move the pictures. -
Beginning of the commercial television
Date is not specified. By 1923 John Logie Baird showed a working television system to the public.
he was a Scottish engineer and ad inventor of the world's first working television system in Hastings, England. -
Electronic Television
The electronic televsion was the first successful demonstration in San Fransisco. It was invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor. It scanned images with a beam of electrons which is the direct ancestor of the modern television. -
W3XK TV station
W3XK was the first TV station. IT was owned by Charles Jenkins -
First color TV
Date is not specified. The first color TV was under development for many years and finally released to the pubic in 1950 -
Neil Armstrong televised
Neil Armstrong was televised when landing on the moon, with now more advanced tevevision technology -
Flat screen TV
exact date was not specified. The flat screen TV was released by Panasonic. The flatscreen TV soon took over the market. Television, in general, was very popular and almost all families purchased one. -
HDTV
There is no specific date. In the year 2009, most people made the switch to an all digital television viewing. transfering from analog TV to HDTV (encodes television picture and sound information and transmits it as an analog signa)
