News Summary

• In 1925, Scot­tish inven­tor John Logie Baird came up with the first tele­vi­sion, which involved pass­ing light through holes in a spin­ning disc onto a pho­to­elec­tric cell.
• The key com­po­nent was the icono­scope invent­ed by Vladimir Zworykin in 1933.
• RCA then deliv­ed the result to more than five mil­lion black-and-white sets in the u.s.