the television

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    the first mechanical tv

    the 'facsimile machine' was introduced by the scottish inventor Alexander Bain.

  • the first electronic tv

    J. J. Thomson, an English physicist, experiments was able to deflect cathode rays that made inventing the electronic tv possible.

  • the first color tv

    Hovannes Adamian, experimented with color television in early 1907

  • the first 3D tv

    3D television was demonstrated for the first time on August 10, 1928, by John Logie Baird in his company's premises.

  • the first cable tv

    cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain.

  • the first digital tv

    In the mid-1980s Japanese consumer electronics firm Sony Corporation developed HDTV technology and the equipment to record at such resolution.

  • the first smart tv

    A first patent was filed in 1994 (and extended the following year) for an "intelligent" television system.