2. By: Odin Contreras

3.  A series of photos can be viewed by stroboscopic disc.

4.  George Eastman invents flexible photographic film.

5.  Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

6.  Edison attempts to record picture photos on a wax cylinder.

7.  Dickson shoots many 15 second photos using Edison's kineograph motion picture camera.

8.  The first public demonstration of motion pictures displayed in France.

9.  Ferdinand Braun developed Cathode Ray Tube.

10.  Cay Ray Tube is used to produce television images.

11.  Patent for the iconoscope, the forerunner of the picture tube.

12.  Talking films started with Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer".

13.  The RCA conducts black and white broadcasting experiments.

14.  The first television broadcast made available in London.

15.  Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi.

16.  There were fewer than 7,000 working TV sets in the country and only nine stations on the air; three in New York, two each in Chicago and Los Angeles, and one each in Philadelphia and Schenectady, N.Y.

17.  The Blue Network officially becomes the ABC Network 1941 FCC ruling required RCA to divest itself of one of its two networks; NBC Blue was sold in 1943 to Edward Noble for $8 million, and becomes ABC in 1945.

18.  The Ampex Corporation used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists during World War II to make the first video tape recorder, the Ampex VRX- 1000. It was introduced in 1956.

19.  The first television camera employed early versions of the cathode ray tube invented in 1897. The RCA made the first handheld mobile video camera in 1972 the TK-44.

20. The first commercially available video cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975.

21.  Earliest commercially available professional digital video recorders were introduced by Sony using the D-1 format, which recorded uncompressed standard definition video using a component video.

22.  The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced in 1995. The camera featured a 3-CCD imaging device for unprecedented video quality in a home video camera.