Before 1925 in television

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

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Global television events

Year	Event
~1880	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.
1900	The word "television" is coined by Constantin Perskyi 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.
1923	Charles Jenkins' first demonstration of true televison. This time moving images were transmitted from Washington to Anacostia Navy station.
1923	Vladimir Zworykin applies for patent for a patent for an all-electronic televison system, which was to use the "iconoscope", the first ancestor of the electric scanning television camera. The patent was was not granted until 1938 after a court of appeals.
1924	Charles Francis Jenkins invents the "phantascope", one of the earliest successful motion picture projectors.
1924	Vladimir Zworykin files a patent application for the kinescope, a television picture receiver tube.

Births

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).
July 21, 1882	Dr. Herbert Ives	U.S. television researcher, leader of the AT&T television research during the 1920s–1930s (d. 1953).
August 14, 1888	John Logie Baird	British pioneer of television technology (d. 1946).
July 30, 1889	Vladimir Zworykin	U.S. pioneer of television technology (d. 1982).
December 6, 1900	Agnes Moorehead	U.S. actress (Bewitched) (d. 1974).
August 19, 1906	Philo Farnsworth	U.S. inventor credited with the invention of the cathode ray tube television (d. 1971).
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).
May 15, 1910	Michael Barry	British television producer and executive; Head of Drama at BBC television from 1952 to 1962.
July 7, 1911	Gretchen Franklin	British actress (EastEnders) (d. 2005).
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).
October 14, 1919	Shaun Sutton	British writer, director, and producer; longest-serving Head of Drama at BBC Television (d. 2004).