Inventors attempted to build electronic television systems based on the ... Read More: When Was the First Camera Invented? So ...

The natural tendency to want a simple story that’s easy to tell — Edison invented the light ... dissector to transmit the world’s first electronic television signal — a single thin line ...

These mechanical TV systems were quickly superseded in the 1930s by all-electronic systems ... [John Logie Baird] would develop the first working television system using [Nipkow]’s invention.

For those curious about other early television innovations, the Westinghouse H840CK15 was the first consumer all-electronic color television sold and released in the U.S. in March 1954 ...