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The Invention of the Television

The television is one of the most revolutionary inventions in the twentieth century. Ever since making it's way into our homes, television has impacted our lives like no other invention has. Moving pictures could be transmitted across miles of distance, countries could watch their armies engage in animated battle during war, and families gathered together at a special time each night to watch their favorite program. Although only attaining popularity in the early to middle twentieth century, it's invention is credited to many different people throughout history, each contributing to the remarkable feat of technology that sits in the living room of millions world-wide today. This site was designed to trace the development of television, how it works, and the roles it has played in the twentieth century.

To discover more about the invention of the television, read the following invention chart or click on one of the links below to connect you to the rest of the Design Brief solution. Hopefully, you will find this site not only informative but very interesting.
Television Development
How Television Works
Television Quotes
Influence of the Television
The invention of the television was never credited to simply one person. Throughout history, many small discoveries and ideas built up to the creation of the first television set, although it was formally introduced into households in the twentieth century. Alexander Bain's ideas of scanning an image, Paul Nipkow's primitive Nipkow disk, and many other small innovations led to the invention that today has become an imperative part of our daily lives. Below is basic information of the television's main inventors.

The Many Inventors of the Television

NAME COUNTRY CONTRIBUTION
Paul Nipkow Germany 1884: Invented the Nipkow Scanning disk
Jean Weiller France 1889: Invented the Mirror Drum
Karl Braun Russia 1907: Invented the cathode ray tube
Boris Rosing  Russia 1907: Proposed a television system which used a cathode ray tube receiver
Alan Campbell Swinton England 1908: Proposed a completely electronic television set
Denys Von Mihaly Hungary 1924: Pioneer of mechanical television
Charles Francis Jenkins America 1924: Invented mechanical television
John Logie Baird Scotland 1923: First person to demonstrate television

1928: Demonstrated colour television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth  America 1928: Invented the electronic television system, the image dissector
Vladimir Zworkin  Russia 1923: Lodged a patent for an electronic television system in the United States

1933: Published a paper on the Ionoscope

INFORMATION SOURCES: Click on one of the links below to visit a source.

www.dvb.org/dvb_articles/dvb_tv-history.htm

members.tripod.com/~TVHistory/paper.html

www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/cmc/tv/tv00eng.html#menu

web-star.com/hdtv/perspective.html