WHICH came first, the TELEVISION or the photo CAMERA?

Question

Please tell me what you think, It's kind of difficult. You could try guessing!

Answer 1

How is it difficult?

The camera had to come before TV. It's a logical progression. First you find out how to make a photograph (camera is invented), then it's discovered how to play back many pictures in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement (film is invented), then it's discovered how to transmit video signals through the air and create a device to receive them and show them on a screen.

1826 - First camera
1888 - First film (motion cameras being around from early 1880s)
1936 - First television transmissions (based on principals discovered in 1873 and 1884)

Answer 2

The camera came first by a long long time and even then it took a long it for us to make film. The pin hole camera had been around for hundred of years just take a look at some the pictures of Henry 8th they painted what they could see. The TV came in two versions the first used a spining disk the second used the cathod ray tube and both ran until the second world war when the bbc stop its programing after Crystall palace burned down the disk system was scrapped

Answer 3

Photo camera.

The origins of what would become today's television system can be traced back as far as the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873 and the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Nipkow in 1884.

The first permanent photograph was made in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris. Niépce built on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. However, while this was the birth of photography, the camera itself can be traced back much further. Before the invention of photography, there was no way to preserve the images produced by these cameras apart from manually tracing them.

Answer 4

Camera

Answer 5

To answer this question, let's look at the definitions of each word:

Main Entry: tele·vi·sion
Pronunciation: 'te-l&-"vi-zh&n especially British "te-l&-'
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French télévision, from télé- tele- + vision vision
1 : an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound

Main Entry: cam·era
Pronunciation: 'kam-r&, 'ka-m&r-&
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin, room -- more at CHAMBER
1 : the treasury department of the papal curia
2 a : CAMERA OBSCURA b : a device that consists of a lightproof chamber with an aperture fitted with a lens and a shutter through which the image of an object is projected onto a surface for recording (as on film) or for translation into electrical impulses (as for television broadcast)

The first photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea. Produced with a camera, the image required an eight-hour exposure in bright sunshine.

And if you look at the definition of camera - it says "the image of an object is projected onto a surface for recording (as on film) or for translation into electrical impulses (as for television broadcast)." - So going by this definition alone it is easy to conclude that television would not even be possible without the camera. How can you make project images for television broadcast without use of a camera - you cannot. The answer is obvious - CAMERA

Answer 6

The first photo was taken in 1825, but required hours of exposure in sunlight to produce the image. Over the following years various inventors refined the process using different materials. By the 1840's camera's were simple enough to be used by most people who could buy one. George Eastman's "Kodak Brownie" appeared in 1888. The first Television image was by John Logie Baird in 1925, again various inventors refined the process leading to today's modern camera's.

I don't think any of those early inventors would realise what their inventions would lead to.

Answer 7

The camera was invented a long time before television was, the main inventions came in this order;
1826 - First photograph
1854 - First telephone call
1873 - Concept of television
1897 - Radio's first broadcast
1936 - First TV broadcast

Answer 8

The camera without question. There are photographs from as far back as the middle of the 19th century and television didn't come around for almost a hundred years later.

Answer 9

Der.. the camera,in the early 1800's, by a french man.

There was such a thing called a pinhole camera which I think was invented in the 1600's....er so where does your television come into all that, when they didn't have electric then?!!

Answer 10

the photo camera came WAY before TV