THE TELEVISION BUSINESS TREMENDOUS & RAPID GROWTH. APPROXIMATELY 40 YRS TO SPREAD INTO EVERY HOME IN THE USA.

FORMS WERE REFINED, BLACK and WHITE TO COLOR, LARGE SCREEN, FLAT SCREEN, etc PROGRAMMING ---- FROM GAME SHOWS TO SOAP OPERAS TO REALITY TV, DOCU, MUSIC VIDEOS

LOOKING BACK AT HISTORY .

1870s SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS, PAIVA, FIGUIER, SENLECQ WERE SUGGESTING OF TELECTROSCOPES SEEING AT A DISTANCE. 1876 --- GEORGE CAREY WAS THINKING ABOUT COMPLETE TV SYSTEMS 1877 --- HE PUT FORWARD DRAWINGS OF SELENIUM CAMERA

SENLECQ
SEEING AT A DISTANCE ..

TELEPHOTO

PEEPSHOW

PHOTOPHONE

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE LATE 1870s AND 1880s

EUGENE GOLDSTEIN (1876) ---- INTRODUCE CATHODE RAYS LIGHT EMITTED WHEN ELECTRIC CURRENT FORCED THROUGH A VACUUM TUBE

SHELDON BIDWELLS (1881) EXPERIMENTS IN TELEPHOTOGRAHY

PAUL NIPKOW SUBMITTED A PATENT APPLICATION FOR A WAY TO ELECTRICALLY TRANSMIT IMAGES USING SPINNING METAL DISKS OR ELECTRIC TELESCOPE

CATHODE RAYS

HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT MANY THE ORIGINAL INTENT FOR TV WAS TO SEE THE PERSON YOU WERE TALKING TO ON THE TELEPHONE AT THE SAME MOMENT YOU WERE SPEAKING.

1900 WORLDS FAIR

MECHANICAL TV --- BASED ON NIPKOWS ROTATING DISKS

CHARLES JENKINS &

JOHN BAIRD
ELECTRONIC TV --- BASED ON THE CATHODE RAY TUBE

PHILO FARNSWORTH (US)

VLADIMIR ZWORKIN (RCA)

CHARLES JENKINS

JOHN L.BAIRD

PHILO FARNSWORTH WORKED INDEPENDENTLY IN SAN FRANCISCO

VLADIMIR ZWORKIN WORKED FOR WESTINGHOUSE AND LATER RCA