Timeline of the Developments of Television

By jp.best
  • First Still Image Transferred

    First Still Image Transferred

    Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
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    Television Development

  • 18 Lines of Resolution

    18 Lines of Resolution

    Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
  • We Called It Television

    We Called It Television

    At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."
  • First Mechanical Television System

    First Mechanical Television System

    Boris Rosing combines Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV
  • Iconoscope

    Iconoscope

    Vladimir Zworkin patents his iconoscope a TV camera tube based on Campbell Swinton's ideas. The iconoscope, which he called an electric eye becomes the cornerstone for further television development. Zworkin later develops the kinescope for picture display (aka the reciever).
  • First Television Station License

    First Television Station License

    The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television station license (W3XK) to Charles Jenkins.
  • First Commercial

    First Commercial

    Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial.
  • Only 200?

    Only 200?

    About 200 hundred television sets are in use world-wide.
  • CBS and BBC

    CBS and BBC

    CBS begins its TV development.
    The BBC begins high definition broadcasts in London.
  • First Color TV

    First Color TV

    Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resolution color television system.
  • Many Developments

    Many Developments

    Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania as a means of bringing television to rural areas.
    A patent was granted to Louis W. Parker for a low-cost television receiver.
    One million homes in the United States have television sets.
  • First Remote Control

    First Remote Control

    Robert Adler invents the first practical remote control called the Zenith Space Command. It was proceeded by wired remotes and units that failed in sunlight.
  • Kennedy vs. Nixon

    Kennedy vs. Nixon

    The first split screen broadcast occurs on the Kennedy - Nixon debates.
  • Telstar

    Telstar

    AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts - broadcasts are now internationally relayed.
  • One small step for man

    One small step for man

    July 20, first TV transmission from the moon and 600 million people watch.
  • 50%

    50%

    Half the TVs in homes are color sets.
  • Betamax

    Betamax

    Sony introduces betamax, the first home video cassette recorder.
  • PBS is blazing trails

    PBS is blazing trails

    PBS becomes the first station to switch to all satellite delivery of programs.
  • First HD TV

    First HD TV

    NHK demonstrates HDTV with 1,125 lines of resolution.
  • Surrounded by Sound

    Surrounded by Sound

    Dolby surround sound for home sets is introduced.
  • VHS

    VHS

    Super VHS introduced
  • Closed Captions

    Closed Captions

    Closed Captioning is required on all sets
  • 1,000,000,000

    1,000,000,000

    One billion sets worldwide