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1791 |
:Luigi Galvani develops a theory of 'animal electricity' later called, 'Galvanic Electricity' |
1794 |
:Robert Barker opens the first 'Panorama', a prototype of future cinemas |
1801 |
:Thomas Young formulates the wave theory of light |
1802 |
:Thomas Wedgewood produces silhouettes by use of siver nitrate but is unable to fix the images |
1807 |
:Dr. William Hyde Wollaston invents the 'Camera Lucida' which projects the virtual image of an object onto a screen. |
1808 |
:Humfrey Davy produces the first electric arc light |
1824 |
:Peter Mark Roget discovers ability of retina to retain image for 1/20 - 1/5 of a second and invents the 'Thaumatrope' |
1827 |
:Charles Wheatstone experiments with acoustics and designs a microphone |
1830 |
Michael Faraday passes electricity through vacuum tube |
1832 |
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 |
1834 |
William George
Horner patents the 'Daedelum' |
1843 |
:Alexander Bain patents the 'Pantelegraph' which is an electrical method for transmitting images over a distance. |
1847 |
:Frederick Bakewell improves the Pantelegraph by using revolving drums covered with tin-foil for transmitting and receiving recorded pictures |
1859 |
Thomas Du Mont patents the 'camera zootropica' which reproduces the phases of movement in 12 successive images |
1861 |
:Oliver Wendell Holmes invents the 'stereoscope viewer' |
1873 |
Joseph May and Willoughby Smith discover photoconductivity which transforms images into electrical signals. |
1876 |
:Alexander Graham Bell invents the "telephone" |
1862 |
:The pantelegraph is invented by Abbe Giovanna Caselli which transmits a still image over wire |
1873 |
:Scientists May and Smith experiment with the photoconductivity of selenium and light and transforming images into electronic signals |
1875 |
Ayrton and Perry of England experiment
with electric picture systems |
1876 |
George R Carey of Boston, USA invented a
"selenium camera" which was a device that would allow people to
"see by electricity." Other similar devices at the time were
called telectroscopes. |
1878 |
Sheldon Bidwell experiments with
telephotography |
1879 |
Thomas Edison demonstrates the carbon filament light bulb |
1880 |
1880: Denis Redmond builds the
télescopie électrique (Electric Telescope) and transmits an
image electrically |
1881 |
Sheldon Bidwell experiments with telephotography inventing the 'Scanning Phototelegraph' |
1884 |
Paul Nipkow invents the "electric
telescope", a scanning disk |
1893 |
One of the earliest examples of remote control was developed by Nikola Tesla |
1894 |
Charles Francis Jenkins patents the phantascope, one of the first practical motion picture projection machines |
1895 |
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 |
1896 |
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 |
1897 |
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz produces radio
waves |
1899 |
Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie
Dickson patent the Kinetoscope |
1900 |
Congress of Electricity held at the 1900
World's Fair in Paris |
1906 |
Lee de Forest invented the "Audion"
vacuum tube with the ablity to amplify signals |
1907 |
1907: Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing
suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images via
Electronic television |
1909 |
1909 Nobel Prize awarded to Karl Ferdinand Braun and Guglielmo Marconi for the development of radio |
1912 |
The Radio Act of 1912 limits broadcasting on radio stations to the 360m wavelength, which jams signals. |
1922 |
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents his iconscope television transmission tube leading the way for further advancement in the television |
1924 |
1924 - 1925: American Charles Jenkins
and John Baird from Scotland, each demonstrate the mechanical
transmissions of images over wire circuits. Photo Left: Jenkin's
Radiovisor Model 100 circa 1931, sold as a kit. Baird becomes
the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a
mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk. Vladimir Zworykin
patents a color television system. |
1925 |
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the
first television color tube |
1927 |
April 9: Bell Laboratories and the
Department of Commerce held the 1st long-distance transmission
of a live picture and voice simultaneously. |
1928 |
Television is introduced in the United
States |
1929 |
Television is introduced in the United
Kingdom and Germany |
1930 |
1930: Charles Jenkins broadcasts the
first TV commercial |
1931 |
January 4 John Logie Baird demonstrates
‘zone television’, showing full-length figures and a cricket
lesson by Herbert Strudwick. |
1932 |
June: John Logie Baird transmits
pictures of the Derby horse race at Epsom to a large-screen
television display at the Metropole Cinema in London |
1934 |
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established by the Communications Act of 1934 |
1936 |
The firstexperimental" coaxial cable
lines were laid by AT&T between New York and Philadelphia |
1938 |
February 4: First UK public demonstration of large-screen colour television at London’s Dominion theatre by John Logie Baird and is transmitted from the Baird studio at Crystal Palace in South London |
1939 |
January: Direct projection television
with a 15ft x 12ft screen is installed at the 1,190-seat Marble
Arch Pavilion by Baird Company. |
1940 |
1940: Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resolution color television. |
1941 |
John Logie Baird, now working on his own, demonstrates a 600 line HDTV colour system for television |
1943 |
1943: Vladimir Zworykin develops a camera tube called the Orthicon |
1944 |
January 15: Patent is granted for the Eidophor television projection system. |
1945 |
June 14: John Logie Baird dies of pneumonia |
1946 |
Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated his mechanical color television system to the FCC - the first to introduce a broadcasting color television system |
1948 |
1948: Cable television is introduced in
Pennsylvania |
1949 |
August: In a document entitled 'Television and the Cinema', prepared for the Beveridge Committee on the future of broadcasting, the BBC states that 'the place of television is in the home' |
1950 |
The FCC approves the first color
television standard which is soon replaced by a second in 1953 |
1951 |
Color television introduced in the U.S. |
1952 |
Television is introduced in Canada |
1956 |
Robert Adler invents Zenith Space Commander which is the first practical remote control |
1962 |
AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts and television broadcasts are relayed around the World. |
1964 |
Color television introduced in the U.S. |
1969 |
July 20: TV transmission from the moon watched by 600 million people |
1972 |
50% of home TVs are color television sets. |
1973 |
Giant screen projection television is first marketed. |
1976 |
Sony introduce Betamax, the first home video cassette recorder. |
1980 |
CNN, the first all-news network, is launched by Ted Turner |
1981 |
NHK demonstrate HDTV with 1,125 lines of
resolution. |
1982 |
Dolby surround sound for home televisionsets is introduced. |
1986 |
Super VHS is introduced |
1988 |
98% of U.S. households have at least one
television set. |
1992 |
There are 900 million television sets in
use around the world |
2006 |
Television signals in both analog and
digital formats |