Given the indispensable role that electricity plays in modern life, it's worth remembering: humans of some kind have roamed the Earth for hundreds of millennia, but have only mastered electromagnetism over the past two hundred years.
Across the one hundred years, numerous observations, discoveries and inventions brought science to the thresold of "moving pictures that can fly though the air.
In this episode of 100 Years of Television we dive into the earliest experiements that explored the interactions of light with electricity.
