Who invented the first ever colour telivision?

Answer 1

Colour television as we know it today is the result of numerous committees and companies agreeing standards for colour encoding and display. No more do we see inventors demonstrating completely new ideas. However, colour television can be traced back to John Logie Baird, the Scot who first demonstrated moving television in 1925.

At the end of the 1930s, Baird presented ideas for a new colour and high definition television system. He proposed that television should use an encoded colour system that is similar to the colour systems in use today. He also put forward the idea that television should use 1000 lines. HD now uses 1080 lines.

His vision for high definition and colour was ahead of its time. Electronic technology at the time was a long way from being able to handle either of them, but he did at least set out a path that has been followed over the following 60 years.

The first commercial colour broadcast was in 1956 in the US. Britain followed in 1968 with a different (but similar) colour encoding system.

Answer 2

John Logie Baird was the first person to successfully demonstrate monochrome television in London in 1925. He started work on a color version of it which he demonstrated in 1929. Although it provided a full color image, it was an electro-mechanical system and was somewhat cumbersome. There were many other engineers and inventors working towards color television and Baird's system was never likely to be chosen as a commercial system. His monochrome system however was put into commercial use for a number of years.

In 1939 technology had moved on significantly. Philo Farnsworth saw his fully electronic system go into commercial service that year in the US. Baird also presented a paper outlining a working principle of encoding and decoding color signals into a single signal that was entirely compatible with Farnsworth's system.

Baird never made his system work but RCA in America used similar principles to introduce their commercial color broadcasts in 1954. This is the same system that is used today across North America.

Other developers have presented ideas that have contributed to color television. Europe, North America and South America are all included in the list of continents that have had involvement in development work over the last century.

Answer 3

Guillermo Gonzalez Camerama invented the color television transmission in Mexico. He first patented his invention patented in the year 1942 in the US.

Answer 4

RCA