Time to test your television technology history knowledge.

You see that box in the corner of your living room? No, not the old computer you forgot to throw away. The one gathering dust, now that you watch all your films online. It's called a television, and once, children, it was the only way to see moving pictures in your house. Since this week is the 78th anniversary of the beginning of TV service in Germany, we thought we'd test you on your knowledge of the history of this technology.

Ready? Answer the questions.

1. By what name did English scene painter Philip James de Loutherbourg call his 1781 version of television?
2. What did Peter Mark Roget's Thaumatrope demonstrate?
3. What did Michael Faraday do in 1830 that was important for television?
4. What did May and Smith find out in 1873 by experimenting with selenium and light?
5. What did a Pantelegraph transmit in 1862?
6. In 2008, Londoners and New Yorkers could celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge together – by communicating via Telectroscope. When was the Telectroscope invented?
7. What was the first book about television called, and when was it published?
8. What did KF Braun invent in 1897 that television couldn't have done without?
9. Who first called it 'television', and in what momentous year?
10. In what year was the first television set sold?

Think you knew them all? Click on the picture below to find out the answers.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

18.03.13 Front Page

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