TV History

Objectives
At the end of the 60 minutes discussion, at least 85
% of the students will able to:

a. define the meaning of television and its different

proponents;
b. value the significance of history of television; and
c. share with the class the contribution of the
inventors in TV History.
Television
• Few inventions have had as much effect on
contemporary American society as television
• Before 1947 the number of U.S. homes
with television sets could be measured in
the thousands. By the late 1990s, 98
percent of U.S. homes had at least one
television set, and those sets were on for
an average of more than seven hours a
day.
What is
Television?
Television
Television is a way of sending and
receiving moving images and sounds
over wires or through the air by
electrical impulses. The big
breakthrough in technology was the
ability to send sound and pictures over
the air.
 The word television comes from the
Greek prefix tele and the Latin word vision
or “seeing from a distance.” The TV
camera converts images into electrical
impulses, which are sent along cables, or
by radio waves, or satellite to a television
receiver where they are changed back into
a picture.
 Television's
Brief History: Origin
• There was no single inventor of the television,
there were many inventors working on the idea of
watching pictures on a screen.

• Inventors from all over the

world had been working on
transmitting pictures or objects
onto a screen since the 1830's,
but the first physical television
didn't evolve until the 1900's.
 Inventor
Five men became the most popular and prestigious
s
inventors of what we know today as television, giving the
history of TV a rich beginning.
John Loggie Baird
Paul Nipkow
Charles Jenkins
Vladimir Zworykin
Philo Farnsworth
They each contributed significantly to the
development of television technology.
Charles Francis Jenkins (American)
(1867–1934)
• Charles Francis
Jenkins was a pioneer of
early cinema technology
and the first person to
demonstrate television in
the United States.
• Charles Francis Jenkins looking into the
lens of his RadiovisorJenkins moved on to
work on television. He published an article
on "Motion Pictures by Wireless" in 1913,
but it was not until 1923 that he transmitted
moving silhouette images for witnesses, and
it was on June 13th, 1925 that he publicly
demonstrated synchronized transmission of
silhouette pictures and sound.
Paul Nipkow(1860-1940)
German engineer and inventor
who developed a mechanical
scanning device (the Nipkow disk)
used in early televisions. The
Nipkow disk consisted of a spinning
metal disk with a spiral pattern of
holes drilled in it. Invented in 1884,
it was used in televisions until
1932, then replaced by electronic
scanning devices.
A Nipkow disk is also known as a mechanical
disk, which is one of the early image scanning
device to dissect and transmit images
sequentially.
John Loggie Baird (1888-1946)

John Logie Baird was a very

famous Scottish engineer
and inventor of one of the
first televisions. He
demonstrated his working
television on 26 January
1926. He also
demonstrated color
television in 1928.
Baird’s system used a mechanical
camera consisting of a large
spinning disc, with a spiral of holes
that Paul Nipkow had developed in
1884. This old mechanical
technology was quickly replaced by
superior electronic television.
Vladimir Zworykin (1888- 1982)

• He is often called
the "father of
television," but he
never accepted that,
stating that he shared
credit with many
others such as David
Sarnoff.
• Among his 120 patents are
two instruments that were
critical to the development of
television: the iconoscope
camera tube and the kinescope
picture tube.
Iconoscope

Kinemascope/ Kinescope
 Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11,
1971)

• U.S. engineer and

pioneer inventor in the
development of
television. In 1927 he
successfully
transmitted the first
image using electronic
means.
• Farnsworth was a specialist in cathode-ray
tubes andtheir use in televisions.
Farnsworth's first application for a or a patent
was for an electronic television system, which
included an image dissector tube used to
scan images for transmission. At the receiver
end, an oscillitetube received and showed
the picture. Farnsworth's multipactor, which
was an electron multiplier tube, increased
the image dissector's sensitivity.
• By 1930 he was perfecting an electronic
camera tube, the Image Dissector, which he
demonstrated to rival inventor Vladimir Zworykin
of Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

Image dissector tube

• At the dawn of television history there were two
distinct paths of technology experimented with by
researchers.
• Early inventors attempted to either
build a mechanical television system
based on the technology of Paul Nipkow's
rotating disks; or they attempted to build
an electronic television system using a
cathode ray tube.
• Electronic television systems worked
better and eventual replaced mechanical
systems.
 The First TV's

• Monochrome (black & white)

• Sold for about fifty-five
dollars, which only people of
wealth could afford
• You could only watch a play on a screen the size of
a dollar coin. The actors also had to take turns in
front of the camera, because the screen was only big
enough to see one person at a time.
 Today's TV's
• Color (high definition, blue
ray)
• Popular TV Stations (ESPN, ABC, FOX, A&E TV,
•CBS)
Over the Past 10 Years the Median Size of the
Average TV has increased from 34 inches to 48
inches.
• Average of 3 minute long commercial
breaks.
• Advertising revenue provides a significant
portion of the funding for most television
networls
Evolution of Television
• Television has changed our lives in a number
of ways. It has has some positive effects with
regards to education, entertainment and
providing current world events closer to the
people.
• However, there have been some negative
effects that television has brought. This is
especially evident in the social and health
aspects. People who spend a lot of time
watching TV also become more accustomed to
a lethargic lifestyle and interact less with
people.
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