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The Evolution of Television (TV)

Nida Seff
Jun 27, 2015
2 min read

Television. The name itself is taken from Greek word which means ‘far’ and ‘to see’ in Latin word. Those two words combined means ‘to see far’. Yes, what kind of technology that allows you to peek the life in London, UK? Television is the answer! TV provides us education, entertainment, news around the world, and many more! But do you know that this technology has been used for more than 50 years? Bet you don’t! That’s why you need to know the history of TV.

1831 - The era of electronic inventions

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

1873 - Photoconductivity

Willoughby Smith discovers the photoconductivity of selenium, which later was used in the first TV cameras.

1884 - Scanning Disk

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow invents the scanning disk which later lead to electromechanical TV.

1925 - Electromechanical TV

Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird, invents the electromechanical TV. It only has 30 lines of vertical resolution.

1927 - 1928 - Transatlantic TV Signal

Baird transmits a TV signal over 438 miles using wires. In 1928, Baird brodcast the first translantic TV signal between London - New York

1934 - TV Emission and Reception System

Farnsworth demonstrates the first electronic TV emission and reception system at Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

1936 - The Berlin Olympic

Hittler inagurates the Berlin Olympic summer games live on TV (first live content on TV).

1940 - Electronic Color TV

Baird demonstrates fully electronic color TV for the first time. A 600 lines color system which used triple interlacing, using six scans to build each picture.

1946- First tape recorder

Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita from the Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K, in a radio repair shop, build Japan's first tape recorder called The Type - G

1954 - CT - 100

RCA (Radio Corporations America) starts making their color CT- 100 compatible with NBC's NTSC (National Television System Committee) color broadcast.

1958 - Sony

Type G changes its name to Sony

1968 - NBC Prime Time Schedule (Full Color)

NBC pushes adoption of color TV, announces prime time schedule almost entirely in color. And in the same year, Sony released Trinitron.

1970 - 1992 - Sony Production

Sony released personal TV in 1974, video tape recorder in 1975, TV monitor in 1980 and portable TV in 1992.

1994

Sony released Playstation which has been upgraded to Playstation 4 in 2014. And in the same year, Trinitron that Sony produced was sold for 100 million tvs.

2003 - Samsung & Sony