By Sarah Ball
It’s been just 80 years since the first image was electronically transmitted onto a plate of glass, a technical feat that forms the basis for today’s image-saturated pop culture. In honor of those decades and the millions upon millions of memorable images they’ve spawned, we select television’s most historic and defining moments, from the first clunky tube in the late 1920s to must-see television like the Beatles’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show (right) to the digital switchover.
