The television wasn't just over invention. It was the accumulation of lots of discoveries. This timeline goes over the discoveries, and how they lead us to TV we know today." from SoftSchools.com.
- 1831 The era of electronic inventions -Scientists began working with electronics to make life better.They knew very little about electricity and how it worked.
- 1862 A still picture is transferred. Abbe Giovanna invented the Pantelegraph. It could transfer an image through wires, similar to the way telephone wires transfer sound.
- 1873 Two scientists names Smith and May experimented with selenium. It helped them to figure out why they could transform pictures into signals to be sent over wires more easily.
- 1876 George Carey thinks up the TV. George dreamed of a machine that people could use in heir homes to view pictures.
- Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the photophone. It could transfer sound, but they aimed for it to do the same with pictures at a higher quality.
- 1884 - The technology works. A man named Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through wires. He used a rotating disk to move the pictures.
- 1900 The first "television" was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris.
- 1907 A new kind of TV. Scientists developed a new way to work the television .It used something called cathode rays in a vacuum tube.
- 1924 The moving picture is developed. A scientist from Scotland, named John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. It was called the moving picture, and paved the way for movies and TV and TV shows.
- The television is tested publically. The first long distance television test ran between Washington, D.C. and New York.
- 1928 The first station was names W3XK It was owned by Charles Jenkins.
- 1936 The TV revolution grows. By 1936 there were 200 sets in use , but that number grew quickly.
- 1937 The first major TV network CBS
- 1939. TV was tested at the World Fair in New York.
- 1950 Color TV is released after yearsin development
- 1969 Television from the moon. The whole world witnessed Neil Armstrong step onto the moon from their television sets.
- 1997 The flat screen takes over. Developers from Panasonic gave us the flat-screen TV. It quickly took over the TV market.
- 2009 The HDTV mandate. In 2009 the American people made the switch to all-digital television viewing.
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