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20 Media Studies - II ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937)-Developed apparatus with which
he succeeded in sending signals to a point a few kilometers away by
means of a directional antenna. He formed (1897)
Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., in
London. In 1899 he established communication
across the English Channel between England and
France, and in 1901 he communicated signals across

the Atlantic Ocean between England and Canada.
By 1907 transatlantic wireless telegraph service was
Marconi established for public use. Marconi was awarded
honors by many countries and received, jointly with the German physicist
Karl Ferdinand Braun, the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics for his work in
wireless telegraphy.

Brief History of TV

$ Television has been around for 75 years; however the concept
of television, in the form of electromechanical television, was
created by Willoughby Smith in 1873 when he discovered the
photoconductivity of the element selenium.

$ John Logie Baird demonstrated televised
moving images in 1926.

$ In 1927 Philo Farnsworth created the image
dissector.
$ Paul Nipkow patented the first
electromechanical television system in 1884,
however he never build a working model. John Logie Baird

$ In 1907 Lee De Forest and Arthur Korn developed the
amplification tube into a practical use technology. Various forms