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The history of the Television

  • First idea

    First idea

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

    Cathode Ray Tubes

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

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

    Wire Circuts

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

    color tube

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

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