This is a really fascinating article. It covers a lot about the 200 year history of early television and gave me a lot of information that I didn't know before. I visited the museum of the History of television and radio in New York city awhile back however it just covered early television shows and didn't go into details of the invention itself. Just a couple of examples of some things that were completely new to me was the meaning of the word television being to view from far away and the fact that the concepts for this invention goes all the way back to the 1800s. (I had no idea it dated back that far.)

It is really amazing how many different inventors laid the groundwork for television to come into being. This article give a great summary showing all the people who contributed to this (Michael Faraday, Joseph Henry, Samuel Morse, Lee Deforest, Carl Ferdinand Braun and Philip T. Farnsworth, Allen B. Dumont all driving the technology forward in their own way). It also gives information on the what scientific knowledge paved the way for this (i.e. radio communication, electromagnetism, and cathode ray tubes followed by the electromagnetic camera tube the Iconoscope eventually ending with the color television available).

It also gives a great summary of some of the early television showds such as Felix the Cat and the Queen's messenger. (Both of which I am not familiar with though I think I have seen pictures of the former.) It is really amazing how far television has come.

Thank you for writing such an interesting and informative piece!




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