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Today Marks 96 Years Since Invention of TV


Thu 27 Jan 2022 | 03:49 PM
Ahmed Emam

Today marks 96 years since the invention of TV by the renowned Scottish inventor John Logie Bird.

On January 26, 1926,  the creator Scottish man unveiled a true television system in London, launching a revolution in communication and entertainment.

At that time, it made history when it used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses, and then transmitted by cable to a screen where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and dark.

Television’s origins also can be traced to the 1830s and ‘40s, when Samuel F.B. Morse developed the telegraph, the system of sending messages (translated into beeping sounds) along wires.

Moreover, Both Bell and Thomas Edison speculated about the possibility of telephone-like devices that could transmit images as well as sounds. But it was a German researcher who took the next important step toward developing the technology that made television possible.