Unfortunately, competitive concerns arose when David Sarnoff, the powerful head of RCA Corporation, found ways to infiltrate Farnsworth’s laboratory and steal his secrets for image transmission. A young inventor named Philo Farnsworth first showed a demonstration of this in 1927. Television, originally known as mechanical or electronic television, began when inventors started experimenting with the idea of creating moving images via radio waves and then transmitted into a picture on a screen.
This breakthrough was originally called telegraphy by wireless. That’s when a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor named Guglielmo Marconi successfully demonstrated how to transmit and receive long-range radio signals, which laid the fundamental groundwork for all radio technology to come.
The concept of radio initially began in the 1800s but achieved its breakthrough in 1895.