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Count Alessandro Volta produces static electricity by friction
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Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg creates the Eidophusikon which uses moving pictures to represent natural phenomena
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Luigi Galvani develops a theory of 'animal electricity' later called, 'Galvanic Electricity'
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Robert Barker opens the first 'Panorama', a prototype of future cinemas
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Thomas Young formulates the wave theory of light
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Thomas Wedgewood produces silhouettes by use of siver nitrate but is unable to fix the images
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Dr. William Hyde Wollaston invents the 'Camera Lucida' which projects the virtual image of an object onto a screen.
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Humfrey Davy produces the first electric arc light
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Peter Mark Roget discovers ability of retina to retain image for 1/20 - 1/5 of a second and invents the 'Thaumatrope'
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Charles Wheatstone experiments with acoustics and designs a microphone
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Michael Faraday passes electricity through vacuum tube
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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
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Alexander Bain patents the 'Pantelegraph' which is an electrical method for transmitting images over a distance
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Frederick Bakewell improves the Pantelegraph by using revolving drums covered with tin-foil for transmitting and receiving recorded pictures
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Thomas Du Mont patents the 'camera zootropica' which reproduces the phases of movement in 12 successive images
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Oliver Wendall Holmes invents the 'stereoscope viewer'
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The pantelegraph is invented by Abbe Giovanna Caselli which transmits a still image over wire
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Joseph May and Willoughby Smith discover photoconductivity which transforms images into electrical signals
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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
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Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images via Electronic television
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Bell Laboratories and the Department of Commerce held the 1st long-distance transmission of a live picture and voice simultaneously.
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Television is introduced in the United States