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Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
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At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held.
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The iconoscope, which he called an electric eye becomes the cornerstone for further television development.
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Vladimir Zworkin and RCA conduct experimentally broadcasts from the Empire State Building.
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Peter Goldmark invents 343 lines of the resolution color television system.
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The FCC releases the NTSC standard for black and white TV.