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A special magazine called Fernsehen und Tonfilm (i.e. Television and Sound film) was published. Experimental colour television receiver showing a football broadcast in a military hospital in 1942. It would become a development of the later PAL-SECAM system.
Television in Germany began in Berlin on 22 March 1935, broadcasting for 90 minutes three times a week. It was home to the first regular television service in the world, [1] named Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow. In 2000, the German television market had approximately 36.5 million television households, making it the largest television market in ...
1922: Charles Francis Jenkins' first public demonstration of television principles. A set of static photographic pictures is transmitted from Washington, D.C. to the Navy station NOF in Anacostia by telephone wire, and then wirelessly back to Washington; Philo Farnsworth first describes an image dissector tube, which uses cesium to produce images electronically.
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A number of experimental and broadcast pre World War II television systems were tested. The first ones were mechanical based (mechanical television) and of very low resolution, sometimes with no sound. Later TV systems were electronic (electronic television). For a list of mechanical system tests and development, see mechanical television.
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.
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