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1775 |
:Count Alessandro Volta
produces static electricity by friction
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1781 |
:Philippe Jacques de
Loutherbourg creates the Eidophusikon which uses
moving pictures to represent natural phenomena
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1791 |
:Luigi Galvani develops a
theory of 'animal electricity' later called,
'Galvanic Electricity'
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1794 |
:Robert Barker opens the first
'Panorama', a prototype of future cinemas
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1801 |
:Thomas Young formulates the
wave theory of light
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1802 |
:Thomas Wedgewood produces
silhouettes by use of siver nitrate but is unable to
fix the images
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1807 |
:Dr. William Hyde Wollaston
invents the 'Camera Lucida' which projects the
virtual image of an object onto a screen.
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1808 |
:Humfrey Davy produces the
first electric arc light
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1824 |
:Peter Mark Roget discovers
ability of retina to retain image for 1/20 - 1/5 of
a second and invents the 'Thaumatrope'
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1827 |
:Charles Wheatstone
experiments with acoustics and designs a microphone
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1830 |
:Michael Faraday passes
electricity through vacuum tube
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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
Simon Von Stampfer invents the stroboscope
:Charles Wheatstone invents a
non-photographic 'stereoscopic viewing device'
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1834 |
:William George Horner patents
the 'Daedelum'
Pierre Desvignes experiments with the Daedelum and
produces the 'Zoetrope' consisting of a drum with
equally spaced vertical slits (peepholes) down the
side and a series of images on strip of paper
showing a figure or object in graduating stages of
motion - the beginning of the cinema
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1843 |
:Alexander Bain patents the 'Pantelegraph'
which is an electrical method for transmitting
images over a distance.
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1847 |
:Frederick Bakewell improves
the Pantelegraph by using revolving drums covered
with tin-foil for transmitting and receiving
recorded pictures
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1859 |
Thomas Du Mont patents the
'camera zootropica' which reproduces the phases of
movement in 12 successive images
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1861 |
:Oliver Wendell Holmes invents
the 'stereoscope viewer'
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1873 |
Joseph May and Willoughby
Smith discover photoconductivity whiich transforms
images into electrical signals.
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1876 |
:Alexander Graham Bell invents
the "telephone"
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1862 |
:The pantelegraph is invented by Abbe Giovanna
Caselli which transmits a still image over wire
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1873 |
:Scientists May and Smith experiment with the
photoconductivity of selenium
and light and
transforming images into electronic signals
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1875 |
Ayrton and Perry of England experiment with electric
picture systems Thomas Alva Edison invents the wax
stencil mimeograph duplicator
Intelligible speech transmitted by Alexander
Graham Bell using a magnetic microphone
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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.
Eugen Goldstein experiments with cathode
rays and used the term to describe the light emitted
when an electric current was forced through a vacuum
tube
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1878 |
Sheldon Bidwell experiments
with telephotography
Paul Nipkow patents the "electric telescope."
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1879 |
Thomas Edison demonstrates the
carbon filament light bulb |
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1880 |
1880: Denis Redmond builds the
télescopie électrique (Electric Telescope) and
transmits an image electrically
Alexander Bell and Sumner
Tainter experiment with the photophone seeking to
use this device for image sending
Maurice Leblanc pioneers
the principles for color television
Denis Redmond publishes the
first book about television called 'La Telescopie
Electrique' (The Electric Telescope).
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1881 |
Sheldon Bidwell experiments with
telephotography inventing the 'Scanning
Phototelegraph' |
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1884 |
Paul Nipkow invents the
"electric telescope", a scanning disk
Thomas Edison discovers the
'Edison Effect' the basis for the electron tube
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1893 |
One of the earliest examples of remote control was
developed by Nikola Tesla
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1894 |
Charles Francis Jenkins
patents the phantascope, one of the first practical
motion picture projection machines
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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
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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 April
23: Thomas Edison shows the first motion pictures in
the USA in Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York
September 2: Guglielmo
Marconi granted the worlds first radio patent
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1897 |
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
produces radio waves K.F.
Braun invents the cathode-ray tube
Thomas Edison continues
experiments with motion pictures
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1899 |
Thomas Edison and William
Kennedy Laurie Dickson patent the Kinetoscope
Julius Elster and Hans
Friedrich Geitel successfully transmit static or
luminous imagery
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1900 |
Congress of Electricity held
at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris
Constantin Perskyi made the first
known use of the word "television."
Scientists were looking at two methods - Mechanical
television and
Electronic television
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1906 |
Lee de Forest invented the "Audion"
vacuum tube with the ablity to amplify signals
Boris Rosing combines Paul Nipkow's disk and a cathode
ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV
system.
Reginald Fessenden invents wireless telephony, a
means for radio waves to carry signals a significant
distance.
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1907 |
1907: Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing
suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images
via Electronic television
Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird
experiment with the mechanical television model
Philo Farnsworth experiment
with the the electronic
television model.
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1909 |
1909 Nobel Prize awarded to
Karl Ferdinand Braun and Guglielmo Marconi for the
development of radio
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1912 |
The Radio Act of 1912 limits broadcasting
on radio stations to
the 360m wavelength, which jams signals.
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1922 |
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents his iconscope
television transmission tube leading the way for
further advancement in the television
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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.
1924
l "Broadcast Listeners" Year Book forecasts 'The
Wireless Musical Cinema' within two to three years.
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1925 |
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents
the first television color tube
October 30: The first moving
image was transmitted (the famous grainy image of a
ventriloquists dummy's head)
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1927 |
April
9: Bell Laboratories and the Department of Commerce
held the 1st long-distance transmission of a live
picture and voice simultaneously.
Philo Farnsworth patents the
Image Dissector, the first complete electronic
television system and transmits the first
all-electronic television image
John Logie Baird set up the
Baird Television Development Company Ltd making the
first television programmes for the BBC
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1928 |
Television is introduced in
the United States
The Federal Radio Commission issues the first
television license (W3XK) to Charles Jenkins
John Logie Baird beams a
television image from England to the United States
The first television set is
sold. The Daven television cost $75.
RCA begins work on large-screen television.
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1929 |
Television is introduced in the United
Kingdom and Germany
John Logie Baird opens the
first TV studio
CBS was founded by William
S. Paley
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1930 |
1930: Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV
commercial RCA demonstrate large screen television
in New York
Ulysses A Sanabria gives a Cinema-television demonstration
in Chicago
July 28: First UK public demonstration of large
screen television given by John Logie Baird at the London Coliseum
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1931 |
January 4 John Logie Baird demonstrates ‘zone television’,
showing full-length figures and a cricket lesson by
Herbert Strudwick. April 24:
Lee De Forest files a US patent for a method of
recording pictures, film or events
Television is introduced in France and the
USSR
By the end of 1931 there
are nearly 40,000 television sets in the United
States
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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
November 8: John Logie Baird introduces a programme
which is televised from
Broadcasting House, London to the Arena Theatre,
Copenhagen, Denmark (600 miles away)
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1934 |
The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) was established by the Communications Act of
1934
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1936 |
The firstexperimental"
coaxial cable lines were laid by AT&T between New
York and Philadelphia
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) debuts
the world's first television service with three
hours of programming a day.
August:
Television at the Berlin Olympics. Television broadcasts
from the Berlin Olympic Games are seen by 150,000
people in public television rooms in Berlin
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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
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1939 |
January: Direct projection television with a 15ft x
12ft screen is installed at the 1,190-seat Marble
Arch Pavilion by Baird Company.
Television was demonstrated by
RCA at the New
York World's Fair and the San Francisco Golden Gate
International Exposition
Fritz Fischer patents the Eidophor
Baird Television Ltd goes into
liquidation and is re-formed as Cinema-Television
but
without John Logie Baird on the board.
Television is introduced in Japan and Italy
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1940 |
1940: Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of
resolution color television. |
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1941 |
John Logie Baird, now working
on his own, demonstrates a 600 line HDTV
colour system for television
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1943 |
1943: Vladimir Zworykin develops
a camera
tube called the Orthicon
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1944 |
January 15: Patent is granted for the Eidophor
television projection system.
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1945 |
June 14: John Logie Baird
dies of pneumonia
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1946 |
Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated
his mechanical color television system to the FCC -
the first to introduce a broadcasting color
television system
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1948 |
1948: Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania
Louis W. Parker patents a low-cost
television receiver
One million homes in the
United States have television sets
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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'
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1950 |
The FCC approves the first color television
standard which is soon replaced by a second in 1953
Vladimir Zworykin develops the Vidicon
Phonevision, the first pay-per-view
television service, becomes
available
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1951 |
Color television introduced in the U.S.
Philips experiments and produces projection
television
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1952 |
Television is introduced in Canada
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1956 |
Robert Adler invents Zenith
Space Commander which is the first practical remote
control
|
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1962 |
AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to
carry TV broadcasts and television broadcasts are relayed
around the World.
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1964 |
Color television introduced in
the U.S.
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1969 |
July 20: TV transmission from the moon
watched by 600 million people |
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1972 |
50% of home TVs are color
television sets. |
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1973 |
Giant screen projection
television is first marketed. |
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1976 |
Sony introduce Betamax, the first home video
cassette recorder. |
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1980 |
CNN, the first all-news
network, is launched by Ted Turner
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1981 |
NHK demonstrate HDTV with 1,125 lines of
resolution. The Supreme Court rules to allow television cameras
in the courtroom.
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1982: |
Dolby surround sound for home
televisionsets is
introduced. |
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1986 |
Super VHS is introduced |
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1988 |
98% of U.S. households have at
least one television set.
The first commercial
Direct broadcast satellite DBS service, Sky
Television plc (now BSkyB), was launched in the UK
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1992 |
There are 900 million television sets in use around
the world 201 million
television sets are in the United States.
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2006 |
Television signals in both analog
and digital formats The
US switch-off of all analogue terrestrial TV
broadcasts is scheduled to begin NO LATER THAN
February 17, 2009
The UK switch-off of all analogue
terrestrial TV broadcasts is scheduled to begin in
2008. The last regions will be
switched off in 2012
A UK Digital
Terrestrial replacement, called Freeview, enables analogue television sets to
receive prrogrammes
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