Essay About Dickson Design Kinetoscope And Cathode Ray Tube

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Chinese Abacus
Napiers bones
Gutenberg press
Principia Mathematica – Isaac Newton
Jacquard loom
Luddites riot
Photography (Niepce)
Babbage Analytical Engine designed
FAX (Alexander Bain)
Morses telegraph installed between Philadelphia and Washington
Maxwell electromagnetic wave theory becomes basis for radio wave propagation
Edison invents phonograph
Nipkow (Germany) devises scanner for scanning and transmitting images
CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)
Edison patents motion picture camera
Edison and Dickson design Kinetoscope – (motion pictures from successive photos on a cylinder)
Berliner invents gramophone
Oberlin Smith publishes basics of magnetic recording
Hollerith introduces an automated punch-card driven tabulation device for the Census Bureau
Dickson uses Edisons kinetograph to record motion pictures
Poulsen invents the Telegraphone, the first magnetic recording device
Fleming electron tube
Einsteins Theory of Relativity
de Forest develops Audion vacuum tube amplifier
Zworykin develops Iconoscope at Westinghouse
First television (J.L. Baird)
1st teleconference – between Washington and New York
Philo Farnsworth invents fully electronic TV (First all electronic TV is made by RCA in 1932)
Motion picture film standardized at 24 fps
Hollerith introduces the 80-column “punch card”
BBC begins broadcasting
Philo Farnsworth receives patents for transmitting images by electronic means
1st stereo recordings
the Magnetophone is 1st true magnetic tape recorder
Valensi proposes color TV
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard design the Audio Oscillator
First U.S. regular TV broadcast
1st TV commercial (for Bulova watches)
Whirlwind computer project starts at MIT
ENIAC computer built at University of Pennsylvania
cable TV is installed
Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain of Bell Labs invent transistors (“transfer resistance”)
John Whitney enters first International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium
Williams tube (CRT storage tube); Whirlwind computer built; core memory developed by Wang of Harvard
Cybernetics and Society – Norbert Weiner (MIT)
Ben Laposky uses oscilloscope to display waveforms which were photographed as artwork
Graphics display on vectorscope