Before 1925 in television

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Categories: Years in television

This is a list of television-related events that occurred before 1925.

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List of years in film List of years in television
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Global television events

Year Event
~1880 George R. Carey of Boston, Massachusetts creates a selenium telectroscope—a camera that could project a moving image to a distant point. The telectroscope was the first television prototype.
1880 Proposals to transmit images by rapidly scanning them in succession are independently made by William E. Sawyer of the United States and Maurice Leblanc of France.
1900 The word "television" is coined by Constantin Perskyi at the First International Electricity Congress in Paris, France.
1907 Boris Rosing transmits silhouette images of geometric shapes, using a Nipkow disc, mirror-drum, and a cathode-ray tube receiver.
1908 In his letter to Nature, Alan Campbell-Swinton describes the modern electronic camera and display system which others are to develop throughout the 1920s.
1921 Charles Francis Jenkins with a group of friends incorporates Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, D.C. with the purpose of "developing radio movies to be broadcast for entertainment in the home".
1922 Charles Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of static photographic pictures was transmitted from Washington, D.C. to the Navy station NOF in Anacostia by telephone wire, and then wirelessly back to Washington.
1923 Charles Jenkins' first demonstration of true televison. This time moving images were transmitted from Washington to Anacostia Navy station.
1923 Vladimir Zworykin applies for patent for a patent for an all-electronic televison system, which was to use the "iconoscope", the first ancestor of the electric scanning television camera. The patent was was not granted until 1938 after a court of appeals.
1924 Charles Francis Jenkins invents the "phantascope", one of the earliest successful motion picture projectors.
1924 Vladimir Zworykin files a patent application for the kinescope, a television picture receiver tube.
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Births

Date Name Occupation/Accolades
August 22, 1867 Charles Francis Jenkins U.S. inventor and promoter of mechanical scanning television (d. 1934).
April 23, 1869 Boris Rosing Russian pioneer of television technology (d. 1933).
July 21, 1882 Dr. Herbert Ives U.S. television researcher, leader of the AT&T television research during the 1920s–1930s (d. 1953).
August 14, 1888 John Logie Baird British pioneer of television technology (d. 1946).
July 30, 1889 Vladimir Zworykin U.S. pioneer of television technology (d. 1982).
December 6, 1900 Agnes Moorehead U.S. actress (Bewitched) (d. 1974).
August 19, 1906 Philo Farnsworth U.S. inventor credited with the invention of the cathode ray tube television (d. 1971).
May 22, 1907 Cecil McGivern British broadcasting executive; controller of BBC Television from 1950 to 1957 (d. 1963).
January 8, 1908 William Hartnell British actor; the original star of Doctor Who in the 1960s (d. 1975).
May 15, 1910 Michael Barry British television producer and executive; Head of Drama at BBC television from 1952 to 1962.
July 7, 1911 Gretchen Franklin British actress (EastEnders) (d. 2005).
May 13, 1913 Jasmine Bligh British presenter; one of the very first BBC Television Service presenters of the 1930s (d. 1991).
May 25, 1913 Richard Dimbleby British journalist (BBC), commentator on state events, and presenter of current affairs programmes such as Panorama (d. 1965).
October 14, 1919 Shaun Sutton British writer, director, and producer; longest-serving Head of Drama at BBC Television (d. 2004).
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