| A | B |
|---|
| Philo T Farnsworth | Father of the TV |
| Charles P. Ginsberg | Father of the VTR |
| Ampex | Corporation that financed Ginsberg and the creation of the first VTR |
| 1956 | The year the VTR was invented |
| 1927 | Philo's first TV Patent is submitted |
| 1928 | Philo produced the first transmission of an image |
| 1921 | 14 YO Idaho farmboy comes up with the idea of electronic TV (Philo T. Farnsworth) |
| 1934 | First public showing of the TV |
| First public showing of TV | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia PA 1934) |
| 1960 | First live televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon |
| 1968 | Electronic editing is first used ("Laugh - in") |
| David Sarnoff | President of RCA during the time Philo was trying to patent TV |
| Vladimir Zworkyn | Russian immigrant engineer who was competing with Philo. He was working for Westinghouse labs/RCA |
| 1950's | Live television begins to evolve. People start buying TV sets in mass |
| 1960's | The Beginning of Videotaping TV shows for later playback |
| 1980's | known for the expansive use of computers for graphics thanks to the movie Star Wars |
| 1970 | Creation of the first video cassette- 3/4 inch u-matic cassette |
| 1974 | beta and VHS invented |
| VHS | Video home system created by JVC (1974) |
| Beta | invented by Sony (1974) |
| 1981 | RCA creates the camcorder |
| 1990's | Digital era CDs and DVDs invented |
| 2000 | HDTV format standardized |
| February 2009 | End of Analog Television |
| 1941-1945 | Government stops all television broadcast |
| 1947 | Philo's patents run out |
| Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In | First electronically edited television show |
| Author of our textbook | Herbert Zettl |
| First Video Cassette tape | 3/4" U-matic tape |
| Inventor's wife | Pem |
| John Loggie Baird | Inventor of the mechanical television system |
| Film | The first medium to record moving images |
| Potato field | What the inventor of TV saw that inspired him to invent TV |
| Where was the above first public showing of the television? | Philadelphia |
| During the early days of electronic communication, _________ was the leader of radio and television broadcasting. | RCA |
| The first television broke pictures into smaller pictures _____________. | Mechanical |
| The inventor of the TV can be described as | Kind and gentle . . . easy to work for |
| The first television satellite, launched by AT&T and NASA, was called ___________. | Telestar 1 |
| ________________________ are electromagnetic waves that transmit music, speech, pictures, and other data through space. | Radio waves |
| Identify the person, television show, or company: "Rowen and Martin's Laugh in" | First electronically edited show |
| _______________ is the number of waves that go by in a second. | Frequency |
| Scottish physicist, ___________ first predicted the existence of radio waves. | James Clark Maxwell |
| During the late 20's and early 1930's, David Sarnoff was president of | RCA |
| Who was Philo’s rival to make the first working TV? This person was a Russian immigrant with more education than Philo. | Vladimir Zworykin |
| What movie ushered in the accepted use of computers for graphics and special effects? | Star Wars |
| After the Titanic disaster, countries convened and established __________________ standards for ships at sea to communicate with. | Wireless Transmission |
