1. Television

2. Julius Plücker

3. Sir William Crooks

4. Crooks tube

5. Beam pulled up by magnet

7. Karl Braun

8. Braun’s cathode ray tube

10. G. R. Carey – 1875

11. Shelford Bidwell – 1881

13. Maurice leBlanc

14. Paul Nipkow – 1884

15. Mechanical TV

16. Boris Rosing
First to use a cathode ray tube as a receiver for a mechanically scanned image

17. Archibald Campbell-Swinton
First to suggest using cathode ray tubes for both sending and receiving images

18. 1911 – A. Sinding-Larsen suggested using radio instead of wires as a carrier of picture signals
We now have all the concepts for what we think of as “modern television”
And then World War I happened

19. Charles Francis Jenkins

20. John Baird / first TV face

21. Vladimir Zworykin

22. Icononscope – the camera

23. Kinescope – the receiver

24. Cathode ray tube

25. Philo Farnsworth

26. Farnsworth won the lawsuit against Zworykin and RCA over who invented the kinescope and the iconoscope. Thus, he’s known as “the father of television.”

27. RCA now had to pay Farnsworth royalties to license his patents
Sarnoff said of RCA that it was determined “to collect patent royalties, not pay them.”

28. Date of demonstration
1930
1931
1933
1936
1939
1941
No. of picture lines
60 lines
120 lines
240 lines
343 lines
441 lines
525 lines

29. Felix the Cat image – 1929, 1937

30. FDR opening 1939 World’s Fair

31. Television started broadcasting in 1939 World War II
brought everything to a halt

32. Post-war RCA 630 set RCA gave the plans to other companies
Set sales skyrocketed:
In 1946 – 6,000
In 1952 – 21,782,000

33. Began broadcasting again in 1946 as basically “radio with pictures”

34. Radio with pictures

37. TV essentially stole radio’s programming – dramas, comedies, variety shows, talk shows, game shows, sports, news. All programming was done live.

38. The Ruggles / Mama/ Mr. Peepers

39. Milton Berle Sid Caesar

40. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

47. The death of live shows

49. CBS’ field sequential color wheel

50. CRT action

51. RCA color TV – 1954

52. Shut up!