In what year did TV come out?
The Invention and Introduction of Television
The development of television was a gradual process, involving several inventors and milestones. The concept of television—transmitting moving images over distance—began to take shape in the early 20th century.
- 1927: The first successful demonstration of electronic television was accomplished by Philo Farnsworth in the United States. He transmitted the first electronic television image—a simple straight line—at his laboratory.
- 1928: The first public demonstration of television in the United States took place.
- 1930s: Mechanical television systems were already being demonstrated in the 1920s by inventors like John Logie Baird in the UK (he made a public demonstration in 1926), but the first large-scale broadcasts with electronic television began in the mid- to late-1930s.
- 1936: The BBC launched the world's first regular high-definition (at the time, 405 lines) television service in London, using Marconi-EMI's electronic system.
Summary: Television technology emerged in stages, but the first television broadcasts for the public began in the mid-1930s. The year 1927 is often cited as the year television "came out" in the sense of the first successful demonstration of fully electronic television.