Who We Are The invention of the television was the work of many individuals in the late 19th century and early 20th century.As a 23-year-old German university student, Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow proposed and patented the Nipkow disk in 1884.The first demonstration of the transmission of images was by Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier in Paris in 1909.In 1911, Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images" over wires to the "Braun tube" (cathode ray tube or "CRT") in the receiver.
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Our HistoryIn 1897, J. J. Thomson, an English physicist, in his three famous experiments was able to deflect cathode rays, function of the modern CRT.In 1926, Hungarian engineer Kálmán Tihanyi designed a television system utilizing fully electronic scanning and display elements and employing the principle of "charge storage" within the scanning (or "camera") tube.On December 25, 1926, Kenjiro Takayanagi a TV system with a 40-line resolution that employed a CRT display at Hamamatsu Industrial High School in Japan.
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