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The start of electronic inventions
People were just discovering that electronics could make lives easier and began experimenting with it. -
A still picture is transferred
Abbe Giovanna Caselli invented the Pantelegraph. This machine could transfer an image through wires. Similiar to a telephone -
Transfer of pictures to signals
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George Carey thinks of the idea of a TV
dreamed of a machine that people would use in their homes to view television -
Invention of the photophore
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the photophone. It could transfer sound, but also do the same with high quality picture. -
Television works
Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through the wires using a rotating disk. -
It was named "television"
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New version of the TV
Scientists developed a new way to work the television using cathode rays and a vacuum tube. -
The moving picture is developed
Scottish scientist, John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. It was called the moving picture. -
The television is tested publicly
The first long distance television test ran from Washington D.C. and New York. -
The first TV station is born
The first station is named W3XK. It was owned by Charles Jenkins. -
Television revolution grows
By 1936, there were 200 TV sets in use. -
The first major television network
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TV's tested at the World Fair to market to the public
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Color TV was invented
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TV from the moon
The whole world was able to see Neil Armstrong step onto the moon. -
Flat screens took over the TV market
Developers at Panasonic released the flat screen TV and quickly grew. -
HDTV
Americans made the switch to all-digital television viewing.