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Scottish inventor Alexander Bain introduced the facsimile machine which mechanically scanned graphics and put them on a screen
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English physicist Fredrick Bakewell demonstrated a working version in 1851.
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an English engineer Willoughby Smith, discovered the photoconductivity of selenium, helping mechanical TV het more advanced.
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The first Color TV was patented in 1897 by Polish inventor Jan Szczepanik, but had no way of scanning colors.
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The first successful electronic television was designed in 1927 by a 21-year-old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. While in high school he begun to devise a way to capture moving images in a form that could be transmitted thru radio waves and be coded onto a screen.
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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the first colored VT on July 3, 1928.
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Mechanically scanned color television was also demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929
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Smart TV was first patented in 1994 and was not very different from modern ones.
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Digital TV transition started in the late 2000s
