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Scientist began working with electronis to life better. They knew very little about electricity and how it worked.
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Abbe Caselli (http://www.telephonecollecting.org/caselli.htm)invented the Pantelegraph. It could transfer an image through wires, similar to the way it transfer sound.
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Two scientists named smith and may experimented with selenuim. it help figure out they could make pictures into signals to be sent over wires more easily,
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George dreamed of a machine that people would use in their homes to view moving pictures.
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Alexander Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the Photophone. It could transfer sound, but they wanted for it to do the same with pictures at a higher quality.
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man named Paul Nipkow figured how to send multiple pictures through wires. He used a rotating disk to move the pictures
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The first "television" was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris.
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Scientist devaloped a new way to work the TV. It used somthing called cathode rays and vacuum tubes.