List of years in television       (table)
… 1914 .  1915 .  1916 .  1917  . 1918  . 1919  . 1920 … 1921 1922 1923 -1924- 1925 1926 1927 … 1928 .  1929 .  1930 .  1931  . 1932  . 1933  . 1934 …        In radio : 1921 1922 1923 -1924- 1925 1926 1927                In film  : 1921 1922 1923 -1924- 1925 1926 1927
Related time period  or  subjects
… 1921 . 1922 . 1923 - 1924 - 1925 . 1926 . 1927 … … 1890s . 1900s . 1910s -1920s- 1930s . 1940s . 1950s … 19th century . 20th century . 21st century …
Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +...

This is a list of television-related events that occurred before 1925.

Contents 1 Global television events 2 Births (before 1915) 3 Births (1916–1924) 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Global television events

Year	Event
1873	Willoughby Smith discovered the photoconductivity of the element selenium. This led to the invention of the photoelectric cell.
1877	George R. Carey of Boston, Massachusetts creates a selenium telectroscope—a camera that could project a moving image to a distant point. The telectroscope was the first television prototype.
1880	Proposals to transmit images by rapidly scanning them in succession are independently made by William E. Sawyer of the United States and Maurice Leblanc of France.
1884	Paul Nipkow invents the Nipkow disk, a means of mechanically scanning an image. This method was later used in mechanical television experiments.
1895	Noah S. Amstutz demonstrates the transmission of photographic halftone images by electric telegraphy.[1]
1897	Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the cathode ray tube, using it as an oscilloscope.
1900	The word "television" is coined by Constantin Perskyi on August 18 at the First International Electricity Congress in Paris, France.
1907	Boris Rosing transmits silhouette images of geometric shapes, using a Nipkow disc, mirror-drum, and a cathode-ray tube receiver.
1908	In his letter to Nature, Alan Campbell-Swinton describes the modern electronic camera and display system which others are to develop throughout the 1920s.
1921	Charles Francis Jenkins with a group of friends incorporates Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, D.C. with the purpose of "developing radio movies to be broadcast for entertainment in the home".
1922	Charles Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of static photographic pictures was transmitted from Washington, D.C. to the Navy station NOF in Anacostia by telephone wire, and then wirelessly back to Washington.
1922	Philo Farnsworth first describes an image dissector tube, which uses cesium to produce images electronically, but will not produce a working model until 1927.
1923	Charles Jenkins' first demonstration of "true" television with moving images. This time 48-line moving silhouette images are transmitted at 16 frames per second from Washington to Anacostia Navy station.
1923	Vladimir Zworykin applies for patent for an all-electronic television system, the first ancestor of the electric scanning television camera. The patent was not granted until 1938 after significant revisions and patent interference actions.
1924	John Logie Baird demonstrated a semi-mechanical television system with the transmission of moving silhouette images.
1924	Vladimir Zworykin files a patent application for the kinescope, a television picture receiver tube.

[edit] Births (before 1915)

Date	Name	Occupation/Accolades
August 22, 1867	Charles Francis Jenkins	U.S. inventor and promoter of mechanical scanning television (d. 1934).
April 23, 1869	Boris Rosing	Russian pioneer of television technology (d. 1933).
November 22, 1875	Elizabeth Patterson	U.S. actress (I Love Lucy) (d. 1966).
July 21, 1882	Dr. Herbert Ives	U.S. television researcher, leader of the AT&T television research during the 1920s–1930s (d. 1953).
February 8, 1884	Burt Mustin	U.S. actor (All in the Family) (d. 1977).
January 16, 1886	John Hamilton	U.S. actor (Adventures of Superman) (d. 1958).
February 26, 1887	William Frawley	U.S. actor (I Love Lucy) (d. 1966).
August 14, 1888	John Logie Baird	British pioneer of television technology (d. 1946).
July 20, 1889	John Reith, 1st Baron Reith	First Director-General of the BBC (d. 1971).
July 30, 1889	Vladimir Zworykin	U.S. pioneer of television technology (d. 1982).
February 11, 1894	Jack Benny	U.S. actor (The Jack Benny Program) (d. 1974).
August 21, 1895	Blossom Rock	U.S. actress (The Addams Family) (d. 1978).
October 4, 1900	Robert Shayne	U.S. actor (Adventures of Superman) (d 1992).
December 6, 1900	Agnes Moorehead	U.S. actress (Bewitched) (d 1974).
March 27, 1901	Carl Barks	U.S. animator (creator of Scrooge McDuck) (d. 2000).
July 1, 1901	Irna Phillips	U.S. writer (creator of early soap operas) (d. 1973).
July 14, 1901	George Tobias	U.S. actor (Bewitched) (d. 1980).
October 17, 1902	Irene Ryan	U.S. actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) (d. 1973).
December 25, 1902	Barton MacLane	U.S. actor (I Dream of Jeannie) (d. 1969).
May 29, 1903	Bob Hope	British-American film, television, radio, and vaudeville actor, writer, and producer (Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre) (d. 2003).
June 17, 1904	Ralph Bellamy	U.S. stage, film, and television actor (Man Against Crime) (d. 1991).
January 26, 1905	Charles Lane	U.S. actor (Petticoat Junction). (d. 2007)
September 18, 1905	Eddie Anderson	U.S. actor (The Jack Benny Program) (d. 1977).
February 20, 1906	Gale Gordon	U.S. actor (The Lucy Show) (d. 1995).
April 4, 1906	Bea Benaderet	U.S. actress (The Flintstones) (d. 1968).
April 4, 1906	John Cameron Swayze	U.S. anchorman (Camel News Caravan) (d. 1995).
August 19, 1906	Philo Farnsworth	U.S. inventor credited with the invention of the cathode ray tube television (d. 1971).
February 12, 1907	Joseph Kearns	U.S. actor (Dennis the Menace) (d. 1962).
May 22, 1907	Cecil McGivern	British broadcasting executive; controller of BBC Television from 1950 to 1957 (d. 1963).
January 8, 1908	William Hartnell	British actor; the original star of Doctor Who in the 1960s (d. 1975).
February 28, 1908	Billie Bird	U.S. radio, film, television, and vaudeville actress (Dear John) (d. 2002).
April 2, 1908	Buddy Ebsen	U.S. actor (The Beverly Hillbillies) (d. 2003).
April 30, 1908	Eve Arden	U.S. actress (Our Miss Brooks) (d. 1990).
July 12, 1908	Milton Berle	U.S. actor (Texaco Star Theater) (d. 2002).
December 14, 1908	Morey Amsterdam	U.S. actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show). (d. 1996)
July 26, 1909	Vivian Vance	U.S. actress (I Love Lucy) (d. 1979).
May 15, 1910	Michael Barry	British television producer and executive; Head of Drama at BBC television from 1952 to 1962 (d. 1988).
May 22, 1910	Johnny Olson	U.S. radio and television announcer (The New Price Is Right) (d. 1985).
October 23, 1910	Hayden Rorke	U.S. actor (I Dream of Jeannie) (d. 1987).
February 6, 1911	Ronald Reagan	U.S. actor and president (General Electric Theater) (d. 2004).
March 13, 1911	Marie Rudisill	U.S. television personality (The Fruitcake Lady from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno). (d. 2006)
July 7, 1911	Gretchen Franklin	British actress (EastEnders) (d. 2005).
August 6, 1911	Lucille Ball	U.S. actress (I Love Lucy) (d. 1989).
December 10, 1911	Chet Huntley	U.S. anchorman (The Huntley-Brinkley Report) (d. 1974).
January 7, 1912	Charles Addams	U.S. cartoonist (created The Addams Family) (d. 1988).
February 25, 1913	Jim Backus	U.S. actor (Gilligan's Island, Mr. Magoo) (d. 1989).
May 13, 1913	Jasmine Bligh	British presenter; one of the very first BBC Television Service presenters of the 1930s (d. 1991).
May 25, 1913	Richard Dimbleby	British journalist (BBC), commentator on state events, and presenter of current affairs programmes such as Panorama (d. 1965).
July 13, 1913	Dave Garroway	U.S. journalist (The Today Show (d. 1982).
January 5, 1914	George Reeves	U.S. actor (Adventures of Superman) (d. 1959).
May 12, 1914	Howard K. Smith	U.S. anchorman (ABC Evening News) (d. 2002).
October 26, 1914	Jackie Coogan	U.S. actor (The Addams Family) (d. 1984).
December 2, 1914	Ray Walston	U.S. actor (My Favorite Martian, Fast Times) (d. 2001).
January 31, 1915	Garry Moore	U.S. game show host and TV personality (I've Got a Secret). (d. 1993)
February 12, 1915	Lorne Greene	U.S. actor (Bonanza). (d. 1987)
April 10, 1915	Harry Morgan	U.S. actor (Dragnet, M*A*S*H).
September 12, 1915	Frank McGee	U.S. journalist (The Today Show) (d. 1974).

[edit] Births (1916–1924)

Date	Name	Occupation/Accolades
February 14, 1916	Edward Platt	U.S. actor (Get Smart) (d. 1974).
March 31, 1916	Lucille Bliss	U.S. actress (The Smurfs, Invader ZIM).
April 4, 1916	David White	U.S. actor (Bewitched) (d. 1990).
July 11, 1916	Reg Varney	U.K Comedy Actor (The Rag Trade, On the Buses) (d. 2008)
July 23, 1916	Sandra Gould	U.S. actress (Bewitched) (d. 1999).
November 4, 1916	Walter Cronkite	U.S. anchorman (CBS Evening News). (d. 2009)
March 2, 1917	Desi Arnaz	Cuban-born actor (I Love Lucy) (d. 1986).
March 30, 1917	Herbert Anderson	U.S. actor (Dennis the Menace) (d. 1994).
May 16, 1917	George Gaynes	Finnish-born U.S. actor (Punky Brewster, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd).
May 21, 1917	Raymond Burr	Canadian actor (Perry Mason, Ironside). (d. 1993)
July 14, 1917	Douglas Edwards	U.S. anchorman (CBS Evening News) (d. 1990).
September 4, 1917	Hilary Mason	British actress (Maid Marian and her Merry Men). (d. 2006)
October 16, 1917	Alice Pearce	U.S. actress (Bewitched). (d. 1966)
October 28, 1917	Jack Soo	Japanese-American actor (Barney Miller) (d. 1979).
December 22, 1917	Gene Rayburn	U.S. television personality (Match Game, The Tonight Show). (d. 1999)
February 15, 1918	Allan Arbus	U.S. actor (M*A*S*H).
February 22, 1918	Don Pardo	U.S. television announcer (Saturday Night Live).
May 1, 1918	Jack Paar	U.S. television personality (The Tonight Show). (d. 2004)
May 9, 1918	Mike Wallace	U.S. anchorman (60 Minutes).
November 4, 1918	Art Carney	U.S. actor (The Honeymooners). (d. 2003)
January 13, 1919	Robert Stack	U.S. actor (The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries). (d. 2003)
February 11, 1919	Eva Gabor	Hungarian actress (Green Acres). (d. 1995)
May 4, 1919	John Hope	U.S. meteorologist (The Weather Channel), named Hurricane Camille for his daughter (d. 2002).
October 14, 1919	Shaun Sutton	British writer, director, and producer; longest-serving Head of Drama at BBC Television (d. 2004).
November 19, 1919	Alan Young	British-born U.S. actor (Mister Ed).
February 18, 1920	Bill Cullen	U.S. game show host (The Price Is Right, Blockbusters) (d. 1990).
February 26, 1920	Tony Randall	U.S. actor (The Odd Couple) (d. 2004).
July 10, 1920	David Brinkley	U.S. anchorman (The Huntley-Brinkley Report) (d. 2003).
July 18, 1920	Dolph Sweet	U.S. actor (Gimme a Break!, Another World) (d. 1985).
November 25, 1920	Noel Neill	U.S. actress (Adventures of Superman).
January 15, 1921	Frank Thornton	British actor (Are You Being Served?).
February 24, 1921	Abe Vigoda	U.S. actor (Barney Miller).
May 14, 1921	Richard Deacon	U.S. actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It to Beaver). (d. 1984)
August 8, 1921	William Asher	U.S. producer, director, and writer (Bewitched).
October 17, 1921	Tom Poston	U.S. actor (Newhart) (d. 2007).
November 22, 1921	Rodney Dangerfield	U.S. comedian and actor (The Dean Martin Show). (d. 2004)
December 26, 1921	Steve Allen	U.S. television personality (The Tonight Show). (d. 2000)
January 17, 1922	Betty White	U.S. actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls)
January 21, 1922	Telly Savalas	U.S. actor (Kojak) (d. 1994)
January 30, 1922	Dick Martin	U.S. comedian (Laugh-In) (d. 2008)
February 18, 1922	Allan Melvin	U.S. actor (Magilla Gorilla, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family) (d. 2008)
March 5, 1922	James Noble	U.S. actor (Benson)
March 20, 1922	Carl Reiner	U.S. actor, writer, director, and producer (Your Show of Shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show).
April 5, 1922	Christopher Hewett	British actor (Mr. Belvedere) (d. 2001)
April 5, 1922	Gale Storm	U.S. actress (My Little Margie) (d. 2009)
April 27, 1922	Jack Klugman	U.S. actor (The Odd Couple, Quincy)
May 7, 1922	Darren McGavin	U.S. actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker) (d. 2006)
May 10, 1922	Nancy Walker	U.S. actress (Rhoda, Bounty paper towel commercials) (d. 1992)
May 18, 1922	Bill Macy	U.S. actor (Maude).
May 22, 1922	Quinn Martin	U.S. producer (The Fugitive, The F.B.I., The Streets of San Francisco) (d. 1987)
July 21, 1922	Mollie Sugden	British actress (Are You Being Served?). (d. 2009)
July 22, 1922	Dan Rowan	U.S. comedian (Laugh-In) (d. 1987)
July 27, 1922	Norman Lear	U.S. producer (All in the Family, Sanford and Son and many others)
September 1, 1922	Yvonne De Carlo	U.S. actress (The Munsters) (d. 2007)
October 9, 1922	Fyvush Finkel	U.S. stage and television actor (Boston Public).
October 31, 1922	Barbara Bel Geddes	U.S. actress (Dallas) (d. 2005)
December 9, 1922	Redd Foxx	U.S. comedian (Sanford and Son) (d. 1991)
December 20, 1922	Charita Bauer	U.S. actress (The Guiding Light) (d. 1985)
January 8, 1923	Larry Storch	U.S. actor (F-Troop)
January 19, 1923	Jean Stapleton	U.S. actress (All in the Family).
January 23, 1923	Florence Halop	U.S. actress (St. Elsewhere, Night Court) (d. 1986)
February 4, 1923	Conrad Bain	Canadian-born U.S. actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes)
April 13, 1923	Don Adams	U.S. actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget) (d. 2005).
April 22, 1923	Aaron Spelling	U.S. film and television producer (Beverly Hills 90210) (d. 2006).
April 30, 1923	Al Lewis	U.S. actor (The Munsters) (d. 2006).
May 13, 1923	Beatrice Arthur	U.S. actress (Maude, The Golden Girls) (d. 2009)
July 25, 1923	Estelle Getty	U.S. actress (The Golden Girls) (d. 2008)
August 15, 1923	Rose Marie	U.S. actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show).
December 12, 1923	Bob Barker	U.S. game show host (The New Price Is Right).
January 19, 1924	Nicholas Colasanto	U.S. actor and director (Cheers). (d. 1985)
March 3, 1924	John Woodnutt	British actor (d. 2006).
May 1, 1924	Art Fleming	U.S. stage, radio, and television personality (Jeopardy!) (d. 1995).
June 26, 1924	Richard Bull	U.S. film and television actor (Little House on the Prairie).
July 11, 1924	Brett Somers	U.S. actress and comedienne (The Odd Couple, Match Game '73) (d. 2007).
August 2, 1924	Carroll O'Connor	U.S. actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night). (d. 2001)
November 18, 1924	Les Lye	Canadian actor (You Can't Do That On Television). (d. 2009)

[edit] See also

• Table of years in television

[edit] References