1896
Kodak develops the first motion picture film designed for projection.
Month: April 2016
Radio Morse Code
The Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi develops radio telegraphy. On December 12th, 1901, standing on Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland, he receives the first transatlantic wireless signal – the letter “S” in Morse code – which is transmitted from over 1800 miles away in Cornwall, England.
First Motion Picture System
Film developed by Eastman and the film camera developed by Edison, are combined to produce the first motion picture system.
The Nipkow Disc
German inventor Paul Nipkow develops a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire.
The Nipkow Disc
German inventer Paul Nipkow develops a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire.
Edison Invents the Phonograph
Thomas Alva Edison completes the model of a device that records sound onto tinfoil cylinders, inventing the “phonograph” in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Edison Invents the Phonograph
Thomas Alva Edison completes the model of a device that records sound onto tinfoil cylinders, inventing the “phonograph” in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Bell Receives Telephone Patent
In Boston, Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who is working on technology for the deaf, receives the first patent for a working telephone system.
Thomson and Carey
Thomson transmits wireless signals. George R. Carey of Boston proposes a television system in which every picture element is transmitted simultaneously, each over a separate circuit. A large number of photoelectric cells are arranged on a panel, facing the image, and wired to a panel carrying the same number of bulbs.
Selenium Experiments
The two telegraph engineers, Joseph May and Willoughby Smith, experiment with selenium and light in order to give inventors a way of transforming images into electrical signals.
