TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF VIDEO TECHNOLOGY By: William Jordan

TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF
VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
By: William Jordan
1500
• The first pinhole camera (also called the
Camera Obscura) was invented by
Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).
http://photodoto.com/camera-historytimeline/
1510
Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein
http://www.datesandevents.org/eventstimelines/12-technology-timeline.htm
1590
Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the
compound microscope.
http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Six
teenth.htm
1608
Telescope invented
by Hans Lippershey
http://www.datesandevents.org/eventstimelines/12-technology-timeline.htm
1876
Bell invents telephone
http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Courses/
ResourcesForCourses/RadioTelevisionHistoryTi
meline.html
1887
Thomas Edison patents motion picture
camera.
http://www.hightechproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm
1881
The earliest identified flat disc record was made by
Sumner Tainter on November 8th, 1881 and is in
the Smithsonian Institution collection. This record was
made before there was even a practical device to play back
a disc recording. The playback mechanisms tested had a
tendency to destroy the wax grooves due to the tangential
force that was not a problem in Edison's cylinder system.
This disc uses lateral or zigzag grooves in contrast to the
hill-and-dale grooves of the Edison cylinder
http://www.cedmagic.com/history/tainterphonogram.html
1897
• Heinrich Rudolph Hertz produces radio waves
http://www.datesandevents.org/eventstimelines/08-television-invention-timeline.htm
1897
The first television camera
employed early versions of
the cathode ray tube invented
in 1897. The RCA Company
led production of early video
production equipment in the
United States and invented
the first handheld mobile
video production camera, the
TK-44, in 1972.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history
-video-production-equipment.html
1900
• First mass-marketed camera – the
Brownie � was presented by Eastman. It
was on sale until 1960s.
http://photodoto.com/camera-historytimeline/
1927
1927(04/07) An image of Commerce
Secretary Herbert Hoover is transmitted in the
first successful long distance demonstration of
television.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timelines/ti
melinetopics.cfm?tltopicid=12
1928
• Television is introduced in the United States
http://www.datesandevents.org/eventstimelines/08-television-invention-timeline.htm
1930
• NBC's first television station, WZXBS, goes
on the air.
http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart1
10/110time.html
1947
The first transistor was invented at Bell
Laboratories on December 16, 1947 by
William Shockley (seated at Brattain's
laboratory bench), John Bardeen (left) and
Walter Brattain (right). This was perhaps
the most important electronics event of the
20th century, as it later made possible the
integrated circuit and microprocessor that
are the basis of modern electronics.
http://www.cedmagic.com/history/transistor-1947.html
1968
• The Virginian is the first TV show to use
Native American characters.
http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart1
10/110time.html
1978
• Paul Nipkow patents the "electric telescope."
http://www.datesandevents.org/eventstimelines/08-television-invention-timeline.htm
1986
• Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
The inventors also call this device “singleuse cameras”.
http://photodoto.com/camera-historytimeline/
1991
1991
(08/06) The World Wide Web debuts as as a
publicly available service on the Internet. Tim
Berners-Lee, who builds all of the tools
necessary for a working Web, posts a short
summary of the project: "The WorldWideWeb
(WWW) project aims to allow all links to be
made to any information anywhere... The
WWW project was started to allow high energy
physicists to share data, news, and
documentation. We are very interested in
spreading the web to other areas, and having
gateway servers for other data. Collaborators
welcome!
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timelines/ti
melinetopics.cfm?tltopicid=12
1995
The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCRVX1000, introduced in 1995. The camera
featured a 3-CCD imaging device for
unprecedented video quality in a home video
camera.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history
-video-production-equipment.html
2005
The first video of YouTube was 'Me at
Zoo' which was uploaded in April 2005.
http://www.techrinser.com/2013/04/thehistory-of-youtube-timeline-info.html