Before totally electronic TV cameras and receivers were built, the electromechanical "scanning disc" produced the first video images. As far back as 1884, German inventor Paul Nipkow designed such ...

Inventors attempted to build electronic television systems based on the cathode ray tube developed independently in 1907 by ...

Meanwhile, in Japan, Kenjiro Takayanagi was developing electronic television, too. He was ahead of Zworykin, but better publicity gave Zworykin the nickname "father of television." Takayanagi ...

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 ...