Before 1925 in television
Global television events
- 1900—The word "television" is coined by Constantin Perskyi at the First International Electricity Congress in Paris.
- 1907—Boris Rosing transmits silhouette images of geometric shapes, using a Nipkow disc, mirror-drum, and a cathode-ray tube receiver.
- 1908—In his letter to Nature, A.A. Campbell-Swinton describes the modern electronic camera and display system which others are to develop throughout the 1920s.
- 1923—Vladimir Zworykin patents the "iconoscope", the first ancestor of the electric scanning television camera.
Births
- August 14, 1888—John Logie Baird, pioneer of television technology.
- May 22, 1907—Cecil McGivern, Controller of BBC Television from 1950 to 1957.
- January 8, 1908—William Hartnell, the original star of Doctor Who in the 1960s.
- May 15, 1910—Michael Barry, Head of Drama at BBC television from 1952 to 1962.
- May 13, 1913—Jasmine Bligh, one of the very first BBC Television Service presenters of the 1930s.
- May 25, 1913—Richard Dimbleby, BBC journalist, commentator on state events and presenter of current affairs programmes such as Panorama.
| Years in television: before 1925 |
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| No country-specific events occured before 1925. |