How Television Began: From Spinning Discs to Streaming Giants
A Complete History of TV – From the 1920s to Today
Television as we know it didn’t start with sleek flat screens or high-definition pictures. It began as a bold scientific experiment in the early 1900s, when inventors around the world tried to figure out whether moving images could be sent through the air, the same way radio sent sound.
These early attempts used mechanical scanning devices, including spinning metal discs called Nipkow discs, which created tiny, blurry images...
