The Early years
The French engineer Maurice LeBlanc, initial gave the suggestion of transmitting color images way back in the year 1880, when he also proposed the image scanning mechanism, which was later used by the other television inventors. Jan Szczepanik, the Polish inventor who made a lot of helpful discoveries for the television, went ahead and tried to implement LeBlanc’s ideas by using a moving prism and an oscillating mirror at the receiver end, which was controlled by an electromagnet, and patented his color television system in 1897.
Sadly Szczepanik’s method was not practical sufficient, and the very first workable color television was developed by the Armenian engineer Hovannes Adamian in the year 1907, and patented in Germany by the year 1908. He developed the tricolor principle, which was the basis of the initial experimental color television that was demonstrated by Baird in 1928. Adamian, recognized as 1 of the founders of color television, also produced a device in 1925 that could transfer color images from a distance. In the same year, the Russian scientist Vladimir Zworykin patented his all-electronic color television system, but could not transform it into a perfect working model.
1st Colorful Successes
It was the Scotsman John Logie Baird, who was effective in July 1928 to demonstrate the world’s 1st color transmission, better known as the mechanical color TV, as he employed three Nipkow scanning discs, each fitted with filters of three different primary colors, and electromechanical system at both the transmitting and