Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

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

On August 26, 1930, he received a patent for the first totally electronic television system, about a decade after first having the idea that underlaid his invention.

At first glance, his mechanical television might have seemed like just another crazy idea in a long list of failures. His first device was built from a hodgepodge of materials that included an old ...

In fact, the invention caused a lifetime of pain for Philo T. Farnsworth -- the man who, at only 14 years old, came up with the idea that he later turned into the first working electronic television.

Television is developed 1926. John Logie Baird (1888-1946) applied for a patent for a mechanical television in 1923. He ran successful experiments in transmitting images in 1926, and in 1930 he ...

ON SEPT. 7, 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth transmitted a live moving image using crude vacuum tubes painted with photo-sensitive phosphors in a small laboratory at Green and Sansome streets in San ...

Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television at the World's Fair in 1939. The first televisions were black and white. In 1946, there were only six thousand televisions in use.

There, he perfected and patented the first operational all-electronic television transmission tube (a forerunner of the modern TV camera). He was 20 years old. Advertisement.

This year's race for the presidency marks the 80th anniversary of the first national campaign dominated by electronic media. In 1928, radio networks had newly and broadly changed the dynamics of ...