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Friction
Count Alessandro Volta produces static electricity by friction -
Moving pictures
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg creates the Eidophusikon which uses moving pictures to represent natural phenomena -
Galvanic Electricity
Luigi Galvani develops a theory of 'animal electricity' later called, 'Galvanic Electricity' -
prototype
Robert Barker opens the first 'Panorama', a prototype of future cinemas -
Light
Thomas Young formulates the wave theory of light -
silhouette
Thomas Wedgewood produces silhouettes by use of siver nitrate but is unable to fix the images -
Camera Lucida
Dr. William Hyde Wollaston invents the 'Camera Lucida' which projects the virtual image of an object onto a screen. -
arc light
Humfrey Davy produces the first electric arc light -
retaining an image
Peter Mark Roget discovers ability of retina to retain image for 1/20 - 1/5 of a second and invents the 'Thaumatrope' -
microphones
Charles Wheatstone experiments with acoustics and designs a microphone -
vacuum tube
Michael Faraday passes electricity through vacuum tube -
staged drwaings
Joseph Plateau invents a toy called the Phantascope which shows a series of staged drawings which are displayed on a spinning disc creating an illusion of motion is created. This is considered the first motion picture device. Simon Von Stampfer invents the stroboscope -
Pantelegraph
Alexander Bain patents the 'Pantelegraph' which is an electrical method for transmitting images over a distance -
transmitting/receiving recorded pictures
Frederick Bakewell improves the Pantelegraph by using revolving drums covered with tin-foil for transmitting and receiving recorded pictures -
camera zootropica
Thomas Du Mont patents the 'camera zootropica' which reproduces the phases of movement in 12 successive images -
stereoscope viewe
Oliver Wendall Holmes invents the 'stereoscope viewer' -
pantelegraph
The pantelegraph is invented by Abbe Giovanna Caselli which transmits a still image over wire -
photoconductivity
Joseph May and Willoughby Smith discover photoconductivity which transforms images into electrical signals -
motion pictures
Louis and Auguste Lumière patent the cinematograph capable of projecting moving pictures and on December 28 show the first motion pictures at the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard Des Capucines -
Electronic television
Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images via Electronic television -
1st long-distance transmission
Bell Laboratories and the Department of Commerce held the 1st long-distance transmission of a live picture and voice simultaneously. -
tv realesed
Television is introduced in the United States