These two problems were solved independently, although much of the research that early television pioneers were engaged in focused on this pair of technical requirements before and long into the ...

Who watched early television and how? Before the BBC began regular broadcasting from Alexandra Palace aspiring "lookers-in" within signal range, as viewers were then called, were able to pick up ...

How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the way, but ultimately to a dead end. Humanity’s deep desire for connection means the idea of seeing images at a distance has a long history.

Sony launched the world's first non-projection, fully transistorized television, the TV8-301, in May 1960, about six years after Texas Instruments and Regency introduced the first transistor ...

Google tells us that television was first demonstrated by an American inventor named Philo Farnsworth in 1927. Some decades later, television is everywhere – on giant screens, on laptops, on ...