-
Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism which starts the era of electronic communication.
-
Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
-
George Carey was thinking about complete television systems
-
Carey put forward drawings for what he called a selenium camera that would allow people to see by electricity.
-
Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
-
The first International Congress of Electricity was held and is where Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."
-
Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images. They both develop electronic scanning methods of reproducing images.
-
Vladimir Zworkin patents his iconscope a TV camera tube based on Campbell Swinton's ideas.
The iconscope, which he called an electric eye becomes the cornerstone for further television development. -
The BBC begins regular TV transmissions.
-
About 200 hundred television sets are in use world-wide.
-
Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resolution color television system.
-
Zworkin developed a better camera tube called the Orthicon.
-
One million homes in the United States have television sets.
-
Zworkin developed a better camera tube called the Vidicon.
-
The first practical videotape system of broadcast quality.
-
Most TV broadcasts are in color.
-
Giant screen projection TV is first marketed.
-
Direct Broadcast Satellite begins service in Indianapolis, In.
-
Super VHS introduced.
-
The FCC approves ATSC's HDTV standard and a billion TV sets are world-wide.
-
The Plasma Screen became popular