THE EVOLUTION OF TELEVISION

In the Early 1800s the era of electronic inventions began

Scientists commenced working with electronics to make life better. They knew very
little about electricity and how it worked.

Alessandro Volta discovers electricity google.com

A still picture is transferred in 1862

Abbe Giovanna Caselli invented the Pantelegraph. It could transfer an image through wires,
similar to the way telephone wires transfer sound.
The transfer of pictures to signals in 1873

Two 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.
The Creation of the photophone in 1880

Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison came up with the Photophone. It could transfer sound, but
they aimed for it to do the same with pictures at a higher quality.

The technology works leveled up in 1884

A man named Paul Nipkow figured out how to send multiple pictures through wires. He used a rotating
disk to move the pictures.

It was named television in 1900

The first "television" coined by Constantin Perskyi was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris.
A new kind of TV was invented in 1907
Scientist Boris Rosing developed a new way to work the television. It used something called
cathode rays by Paul Nipkow and a vacuum tube by Lee de Forest.

The moving picture is developed in 1924

A scientist from Scotland, named John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. It
was called the moving picture, and paved the way for movies and TV shows.
The television is tested publically in 1925
The first long distance television test ran between Washington D.C. and New York.

The TV revolutions grows in 1936

At first the TV reach was very small. By 1936 there were 200 sets in use, but that number quickly
grew.
1939 Another World Fair exhibit
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 finally released to the public in 1950.
TV from the moon 1969
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and the whole world saw through their television sets.
The TV revolution had begun.

Digital Light Processing (DLP) was developed in 1987

Digital Light Processing (DLP) is a type of projector technology that uses a digital micromirror
device by Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments.

Sony introduce Betamax, the first home video cassette recorder in 1975
It was developed by Sony and was released in Japan on May 10, 1975.
Super VHS is introduced in 1986
Victor Company of Japan introduced S-VHS in Japan in April 1986 with their JVC-branded
HR-S7000 VCR, and in certain overseas markets soon afterward.

The Plasma flat screen takes over in 1997

Developers at Panasonic developed and released the flat screen TV. It quickly took over the TV
market.
LCD televisions boomed and surpassed the sales of CRT-based televisions worldwide for the first time
in 2007
Liquid-crystal-display televisions (LCD TV) are television sets that use Liquid-crystal displays to
produce images. LCD televisions are much thinner and lighter than cathode ray tube (CRTs).

LED displays were first introduced to the consumer in 2009

An OLED (organic light-emitting diode) is a light-emitting diode (LED) in which

the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compound which emits light in response to
an electric current.
The Immergence of Smart TV (Television) in the present
Sometimes referred to as connected TV, hybrid TV. Smart TV is a television set with integrated Internet
and interactive "Web 2.0" features. Smart TV is a technological convergence between computers and
flatscreen television sets and set-top boxes.

AND THEN MAYBE THE FUTURE MIGHT LOOK LIKE THIS

HOLOGRAM
 It will continue to change–all aspects of it. Devices will get smarter, thinner, more affordable,
have better resolution, etc. Broadcast technology will offer more addressable options to advertisers and
will send higher definition images to households. And programming will continue to evolve to attract and
retain its audiences.