Television Coloring Page

Philo Farnsworth was only 14 when he got the idea for television, while plowing a field and looking at the straight rows in the dirt. He figured a picture could be sent as lines too. In 1927, when he was 21, he sent the first picture through a fully electronic television. It was just a straight line, but it worked.

A Scottish inventor named John Logie Baird had shown a different kind of television, using a spinning disc, a couple of years earlier. By the 1950s many families had a TV set at home, and people could watch events happen far away as they were happening.