Media & Entertainment · Recorded milestone
Electronic television
Recorded year1927
Philo Farnsworth transmits the first all-electronic television image.
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Led to
- Home TV setRecorded · 1928enables
- TV commercialRecorded · 1941enables
- Electronic abstract imagesRecorded · 1950enables
- TV remote controlRecorded · 1950enables
- Colour televisionRecorded · 1954enables
- Modern theme parkRecorded · 1955enables
- Weather satelliteRecorded · 1960requires
- Instant replayRecorded · 1963enables
- Digital typesetterRecorded · 1965enables
- Exit pollsRecorded · 1967enables
- CCTV policingRecorded · 1968enables
- Picturephone serviceRecorded · 1970enables
- Coin-op arcade video gameRecorded · 1971enables
- Home video gamesRecorded · 1972enables
- LaserDisc playerRecorded · 1978requires
- DVD playerRecorded · 1996requires
- Digital video recorderRecorded · 1999enables
- Streaming TV stickRecorded · 2007requires
- Smell and taste in mediaForecast · ~2030enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.