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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 |

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| |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' |

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| |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|

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| |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 |

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| |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 |

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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." |

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| |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 |

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| |Ulysses A Sanabria gives a Cinema-television demonstration in Chicago |

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| |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 |

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| |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 |

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| |November 8: John Logie Baird introduces a programme which is televised from Broadcasting House, London to the Arena Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark (600 miles |

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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 |

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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 |

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| |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. |

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| |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. |

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| |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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|Television Invention Timeline |

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