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TIMELINE OF PROJECTOR
Apr 22, 1895
The Magic Lantern
The Magic lantern was one
of the earliest recorded
functional projectors in
history. These lanterns
conveyed images printed
on glass slides in which oil
lamps and candles served
as light sources for the
projection.
Oct 2, 1925 Nov 4, 1940 May 11, 1950
The Filmstrip Projector The Opaque Projector The Slide Projector
Filmstrips were used to The opaque projector Unlike opaque projectors,
show educational films in allows the user to project slide projectors require
classrooms, serving as a printed material or small that the presented
predecessor of objects without having to material be transferred to a
videocassettes, DVDs convert them to another 35mm slide allowing the
and Blu-ray technology. medium unlike the film user to project virtually
The teacher could turn a strip projector. anything that can be can
knob on the side in order put on film. The first
to pause any image patented slide projector
being presented. was created by Kodak
Sep 5, 1960
The Overhead Projector
The overhead projector followed the
slide projector due to the innovation
of a printed transparent sheet that
could be placed on the overheads
source of light. The transparent sheet
then would be placed on an overhead
projector and then would be
conveyed onto a wall or screen using
the lamp and optics that are built into
the projector.
Oct 2, 1980
Digital Projection Panels
The digital projection panel
consisted of a large LCD,
electronics, cooling fan, and a
plastic or metal enclosure with a
glass plate on both sides of the
LCD. It basically consisted of an
electrical sheet incased in the
hard shell of the projector, and
could be plugged into a
computer in order to convey any
image.
Jul 6, 1984
The Home Theater (LCD)
Projector
LCD (liquid- crystal display)
projectors projected a light
beam from a metal halide
lamp that passes through a
special kind of prism that
contains liquid crystals to
help control and direct the
intense light beam
supplied by the metal
halide lamp.
Aug 6, 1990 May 22, 1992
The Computer Projector Jan 5, 2000 Jan 17, 2005
The Video Projector
The Multimedia Projector The Pocket Projector

The computer projector A video projector is an image

essentially combined the A multimedia projector is a Created by Mitsubishi, the
projector that receives a video
overhead projector and the compact, high resolution, new pocket projectors
signal and projects the
digital projection panel into full-color projector capable were small enough to fit in
corresponding image on a
one device making it of projecting text, images, the palm of a hand. Their
projection screen using a lens
considerably smaller and video and audio content at light source is a cluster of
system. When they were first
more easily transported. The a much more capable rate LEDs and most of them can
innovated in the early 1990s,
main difference is that it was then the first models of the be plugged into a wall
quality and visibility was bad,
the first fully integrated LCD projector. Typically the outlet or powered by
but as models continued to be
digital data projector that projector will feature battery.
patented by companies, they
was compatible with most inputs for a computer, DVD
became widely used despite
computers. player, VCR, CD player and
their weight and poor
storage device.
transportability.