There wasn't just one person who invented the modern day TV. A whole lot of people contributed.
Paul Gottlieb was the first to invent a rotating disk that transmitted pictures via cable. This happened in 1884. But Abbe Giovanna Caselli, George Carey, Sheldon Bidwell, Eugene Goldstein, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison all contributed with prior inventions that enabled Paul Gottlieb to invent his rotating disk.
Paul Nipkow, Vladimir Zworkin and Charles Jenkins should also be given credit.
Decades later, in the 1920's John Logie Baird patented the transparent rods for transmitting images. Peter Goldmark is given credit for the first colour TV system.
The Television (tv) - Timeline
1831
Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday work with electromagnetism . This makes people think about electronic communication.
1862
First still image transferred. Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents the pantelegraph (early fax machine) that sends a picture over wires.
1873 Scientiss May and Smith experiment with light and selenium - thay discover thay can turn images into electronic signals.
1876 George Carey thought about t.v systems and made drawings of a selenilem camera that allow people to see by electricity.
1884 Paul Nipkow sent images over wires. He called it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resoultion.
1900 At the world's fair in Paris Russian Constantin Persky made the first known use of the word "television".
1923 Vladimir Zworkin invents the iconscope which becomes the foundation for the modern TV. The iconscope is a tube transmitting images.
1925 First moving images. Charles Jenkins and John Baird transmit moving images using wire circuits.
1927 Philo Farnsworth is given credit for the first TV. 60 resolution.
1928 The first television station licence was issued to Charles Jenkins for W3XK.
1936 About 200 TV sets are in use worldwide.
1940 Peter Goldmark invents 343 lines of resolution for the colour TV.
1981 1,125 lines of resolution is used for high definition TV.
1996 A billion TV sets are now worldwide.
Modern Communication
Device
Date
Inventor
Benefits
ipad
3/4/2008
Apple Inc. Five people were on the design team. It took too years to bring it to the market.
You can touch the screen and it is portable.
Laptop
1979
William (Bill) Moggridge
Not very bulky. Can move it from room to room and office to office.
Cellphone
3/4/1973
Dr Martin Cooper
You can keep in touch with anyone, any time, any where and it is portable.
Antonio Meucci (The First to invent the telephone)
Born 13 of April 1808 in Florence, Italy.
November 1822. He was 15 when he went to the Florence Academy of Fine Arts. He studied chemical engineering and mechanical engineering.
1834. He built a type of acoustic telephone to talk between the control room and the stage.
7 August 1834. He married Esterre Mochi.
October 1835. He moved to Cuba and got a job at Tacon Theatre.
1849. He developed a popular method of electric shock treatment for illness, As a result of this he developed a device that could hear murmured voice, he called it the talking telegraph.
13 April 1850. He moved to Staten Island, New York.
1856. He installed a telephone like device in his house to talk to his sick wife using electromagnetic voice transmission (telephone).
13 November 1861. He had no money left and he had to sell his house.
1870. He made a call on a telephone heard a mile away.
28 December 1871. He filed patent 3335 for sound telegraph.
Who Invented the Television?
There wasn't just one person who invented the modern day TV. A whole lot of people contributed.
Paul Gottlieb was the first to invent a rotating disk that transmitted pictures via cable. This happened in 1884. But Abbe Giovanna Caselli, George Carey, Sheldon Bidwell, Eugene Goldstein, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison all contributed with prior inventions that enabled Paul Gottlieb to invent his rotating disk.
Paul Nipkow, Vladimir Zworkin and Charles Jenkins should also be given credit.
Decades later, in the 1920's John Logie Baird patented the transparent rods for transmitting images. Peter Goldmark is given credit for the first colour TV system.
The Television (tv) - Timeline
1876 George Carey thought about t.v systems and made drawings of a selenilem camera that allow people to see by electricity.
1884 Paul Nipkow sent images over wires. He called it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resoultion.
1900 At the world's fair in Paris Russian Constantin Persky made the first known use of the word "television".
1923 Vladimir Zworkin invents the iconscope which becomes the foundation for the modern TV. The iconscope is a tube transmitting images.
1925 First moving images. Charles Jenkins and John Baird transmit moving images using wire circuits.
1927 Philo Farnsworth is given credit for the first TV. 60 resolution.
1928 The first television station licence was issued to Charles Jenkins for W3XK.
1936 About 200 TV sets are in use worldwide.
1940 Peter Goldmark invents 343 lines of resolution for the colour TV.
1981 1,125 lines of resolution is used for high definition TV.
1996 A billion TV sets are now worldwide.
Modern Communication