History of television
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The history of television begins with the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Constantin Perskyi coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electri
Family watching TV, 1958
The earliest photograph of a television picture, showing the face of Oliver Hutchinson in June 1926. The television picture was projected using Baird's television camera.
Ferdinand Braun
Tihanyi' Radioskop patent (1926) was recognized as Document of Universal Significance by the UNESCO
Video camera tube
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Video camera tubes are devices based on the cathode-ray tube that were used in television cameras to capture television images, prior to the introduction of charge-coupled device image sensors in the
Vidicon tube 2⁄3 inch (17 mm) in diameter
A display of numerous video camera tubes from the 1930s and 1940s, photographed in 1954, with iconoscope inventor Vladimir K. Zworykin
Farnsworth Image Dissector tube (1931)