Meanwhile, the electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco in 1927 as well. It was designed by ...

By September of 1927, Farnsworth has successfully used his image dissector to transmit the world’s first electronic television signal — a single thin line scratched into a smoked glass slide.

For those curious about other early television innovations, the Westinghouse H840CK15 was the first consumer all-electronic color television sold and released in the U.S. in March 1954 ...

The first special-purpose television station was built in Germany in 1935 in preparation for the Berlin Olympic Games the following year. That Olympic year, NBC experimented with electronic ...

Before totally electronic TV cameras and receivers were built, the electromechanical "scanning disc" produced the first video images. As far back as 1884, German inventor Paul Nipkow designed such ...

Innovations include the first fully electronic television in 1931, the first portable television, 1963’s Optaport, and one of the earliest stereo sound television sets in the early 1980s. Now the ...