The History of Television

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The History of Television

• by
• Kari Allen

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1900

• The word television is first introduced at the
  Worlds Fair in Paris

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1926

• John Logie Baird of Scotland gives the
• worlds first public demonstration of
• television.

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1939

• Electronic television is perfected
• Experimental broadcasting begins
• Public use of TV still very limited

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1944

• The US is engaged in World War II
• All commercial television production is banned
  for the remainder of the war

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1954

• Americas first mass- produced color TV is
  introduced

Two years later, Time magazine calls color TV
the most resounding industrial flop of
1956
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1959

• Philco introduces the first battery operated
  transistor TV

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1976

• Cable TV becomes available

• Sony introduces Betamax, the first home video
  cassette recorder

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1984

• Giant screen projection TVs with stereo sound are
  considered top of the line in technology

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1996

• With the invention of WebTV, a remote control
  device allows viewers to surf the web through
  their TV sets

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2002

• An idea that originated in 1964 finally becomes
  reality with the introduction of the Flat-Screen
  Plasma TV

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Images Reference List

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