Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Ányos Jedlik (1800–1898), Hungary – Jedlik dynamo Alec John Jeffreys (born 1950), UK – DNA profiling (forensics) Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934), U.S. – television and movie projector (Phantoscope)
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈgɔtliːp ˈnɪpkɔv]; 22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental component in the first televisions. [1]
The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in autumn 2012, and on the History Channel UK in fall 2013.
Television shows set in ancient Egypt (11 P) B. BBC television documentaries about history (8 C, ... History (American TV channel) original programming (1 C, 218 P)
History portal; Television series set in the decade 1800s. 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s; ... Pages in category "Television series set in the 1800s"
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more