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Paul Nipkow

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow developed what is now known as the Nipkow disk. The circular disk has holes in a spiral line for capturing the image and sending the picture to a light sensor.

LCD Television

A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid crystals (LCs). By applying and electric current to the LCD material, the polarization of light is bent from 0-90 degrees.

Did you know?

Color broadcasting officially arrives in the U.S. on December 17,1953, when the FCC approved modified version of an RCA system.