Timeline: The history of the Television

May 7, 1880

First idea

1880: Denis Redmond builds the télescopie électrique (Electric Telescope) and transmits an image electrically

Feb 8, 1907

1907: Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images via Electronic television

Apr 7, 1922

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents his iconscope television transmission tube leading the way for further advancement in the television

Feb 8, 1924

1924 - 1925: American Charles Jenkins and John Baird from Scotland, each demonstrate the mechanical transmissions of images over wire circuits

Oct 30, 1925

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the first television color tube
October 30: The first moving image was transmitted