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- 4. Acting Funny May 6, 2014
- The backstage techniques of comic actors, including Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters and Tina Fey.
- 3. Breaking Barriers Apr 29, 2014
- Breakthroughs of Black actors including Diahann Carroll; Desi Arnaz and Edward James Olmos.
- 2. Doctors and Nurses Apr 22, 2014
- Actors Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Gloria Reuben and Eriq LaSalle reveal the secrets of "ER."
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Watch compelling interviews and irresistible clips of TV's biggest celebrities on PBS. Explore the history and culture of television with season four of Pioneers of Television.
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Pioneers of Television: With Dick Van Dyke, Phyllis Diller, Betty White, Florence Henderson. A documentary series focusing on the legends that helped launched TV and left lasting impression on sitcoms, talk shows, variety shows and game shows in television's early years.
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PIONEERS OF TELEVISION returns to PBS for a third season with new stories of the visionaries who shaped a fledgling medium with creativity, foresight and wisdom.
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Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetismjumpstarts the era of electronic communication.
Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
Scientist Willoughby Smith experiments with selenium and light, revealing the possibility for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a selenium camera that would allow people to see by electricity. Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube.
Scientists and engineers like Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva, Louis Figuier, and Constantin Senlecq were suggesting alternative designs for telectroscopes.
Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edisontheorize about telephone devices that transmit images as well as sound. Bell's photophoneused light to transmit sound and he wanted to advance his device for image sending. George Carey builds a rudimentary system with light-sensitive cells.
Paul Nipkowsends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television." Soon after 1900, the momentum shifted from ideas and discussions to the physical development of television systems. Two major paths in the development of a television sys...
Lee de Forest invents the Audion vacuum tube that proves essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ability to amplify signals. Boris Rosing combines Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV system.
Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images. Independent of each other, they both develop electronic scanning methods of reproducing images.
Learn how television was invented by many people over the years, from electromagnetism to cathode ray tubes, from mechanical to electronic systems. Explore the key events and inventors who contributed to the development of the device from 1831 to 1996.
More than 200 breakthrough stars bring their stories to life in season four of the Emmy-nominated documentary series Pioneers of Television. Each episode melds compelling new interviews with irresistible clips to offer a fresh take on TV's biggest celebrities.
Arts & Culture History. More than 200 stars bring their stories to life in the Emmy®-nominated documentary series Pioneers of Television. Each episode melds compelling new interviews with irresistible clips to offer a fresh take on TV’s breakthrough celebrities and beloved programs.
