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Jan. 29, 1901: DuMont Will Make TV Work

1901: In Brooklyn, a boy is born who will himself give birth to a revolution in home entertainment. Allen B. DuMont will be called by many the Father of Television. DuMont contracted polio as a child....

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June 18, 1908: Prescient Letter Creates Concept of TV

1908: A Scottish electrical engineer publishes a brief letter in the journal Nature, describing the essentials of making and receiving television images. But it will take 40 years before the...

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April 20, 1940: Electron Microscope Crosses the Atlantic; Zworykin Crosses...

1940: Vladimir Zworykin, better known as a co-inventor of television, demonstrates the first electron microscope in the United States. Once again, the Russian emigré improves but does not, strictly...

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