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Mechanical Television Pioneers
German inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow developed a rotating disc technology in 1884 called the Nipkow disk to transmit pictures over wires. -
Electronic Television Pioneers
In 1927, American Philo Taylor Farnsworth became the first inventor to transmit a television image—a dollar sign—comprising 60 horizontal lines. Farnsworth also developed the dissector tube, the basis of all current electronic televisions. -
Additional Television Components
In 1947 Louis W. Parker invented the Intercarrier Sound System to synchronize television sound. His invention is used in all television receivers in the world -
Additional Television components
In June 1956 the TV remote controller first entered the American home. The first TV remote control, called "Lazy Bones," was developed in 1950 by Zenith Electronics Corp., then known as Zenith Radio Corp. -
TV's we have in this century
LG Electronics was established in 1958 and has since led the way into the advanced digital era thanks to the technological expertise acquired by manufacturing many home appliances such as radios and TVs -
Plasma TV
Plasma TV display panels use small cells containing electrically charged ionized gases to generate high-quality imagery. The first prototype for a plasma display monitor was invented in 1964 by Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson.
