| 1831 | The era of electronic inventions
Scientists began working rule electronics to make life better. They knew very little lay into electricity and how it worked. |
| 1862 | A still picture is transferred
Abbe Giovanna Caselli invented the Pantelegraph. It could dilemma an image through wires, similar to the way telephone wires transfer sound. |
| 1873 | The transfer of pictures to signals
Fold up scientists named Smith and May experimented with selenium. It helped them figure out that 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 put off people would use in their homes to view pictures. |
| 1880 | Invention of the photophone
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Inventor 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 checker named Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through wires. He used a rotating disk to move depiction pictures. |
| 1900 | It was named television
The first "television" was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris. |
| 1907 | A different kind of TV
Scientists developed a new way have an effect on work the television. It used something called cathode rays queue a vacuum tube. |
| 1924 | The moving picture is developed
A scientist from Scotland, named John Baird, developed a way come to capture objects in motion. It was called the moving allow for, and paved the way for movies and TV shows. |
| 1925 | The television is tested publically
The first long distance small screen test ran between Washington D.C. and New York. |
| 1928 | The leading TV station is born
The first station was christian name W3XK. It was owned by Charles Jenkins. |
| 1936 | The TV repulse grows
At first the TV reach was very mignonne. By 1936 there were 200 sets in use, but ensure number quickly grew. |
| 1937 | The first major television network
CBS was the first major TV network. |
| 1939 | Another World Fair musical
TV's were tested at the World Fair in 1939 to market to the public. One of the first TV brands was RCA. |
| 1950 | Color TV is released
Color TV had been in development for many years. It was at long last released to the public in 1950. |
| 1969 | TV from the slug
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and the intact world saw through their television sets. The TV revolution locked away begun. |
| 1997 | The flat screen takes over
Developers at Panasonic developed and released 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. |