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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.
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
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.
HBO was the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network as well as the first television network intended for cable distribution on a regional or national basis; however, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980), as well ...
The Vietnam War became known as "The Television War", [96] as it was the first broadly televised conflict and provided frequent news coverage and images of the war. Television is not credited as being a factor in the United States removing troops from Vietnam, [97] but rather the Watergate Scandal, [98] funding for the war, and peace treaty [99 ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
December 4, 1953 (as WWOR-TV) August 31 Corpus Christi, Texas: KVDO-TV: 22 Independent 1968 Galveston/Houston, Texas: KVVV-TV: 16 Independent February 1968 September 13 Ventura/Los Angeles, California: KKOG-TV: 16 December 14, 1968 Unknown date Jamestown-Buffalo, New York: WNYP-TV: 26 Independent 1966 Returned to the air in 1988 as WTJA Marion ...
The addition of color to broadcast television after 1953 further increased the popularity of television sets, and an outdoor antenna became a common feature of suburban homes. The ubiquitous television set became the display device for recorded media in the 1970s, such as Betamax and VHS , which enabled viewers to record TV shows and watch ...