John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer, demonstrated the first working television system in 1926.
The German physicist Karl Braun contributed significantly to the development of television technology. He is the one who developed the cathode ray tube in 1897. The cathode ray tube is a tube in which cathode rays produce a luminous image on a fluorescent screen. This method of scanning electrically is the technological basis of modern television.
Using this technology John Logie Baird produced the first image of a living face. Early in 1926 he used his Televisor to show such images to members of the Royal Institute.
Baird went on to produce a colour transmission system which he demonstrated in 1928. In the same year, his company (the Baird Television Development Company) achieved the first transatlantic television transmission between London and New York. Russian inventor Vladimir Zworykin played a key role in the development of television, including charge storage-type tubes, and the electron microscope. He was hailed as the father of modern television.
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