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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.
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The first, on June 24, 1949, was the Hopalong Cassidy show, at first edited from the 66 films made by William Boyd. A great many B-movie Westerns were aired on TV as time fillers, starring actors like: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, John Wayne, Lash LaRue, Buster Crabbe, Bob Steele, Johnny Mack Brown, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard and
This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.
Television series which originated in the United States and were first broadcast in a given decade. Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category and its sub-categories
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.
Italy's first TV continuity announcer (died 2021) January 20: Arte Johnson: U.S. comic actor (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) (died 2019) February 4: Jerry Adler: U.S. actor February 22: Rebecca Schull: U.S. actress March 5: Raymond Allen: U.S. actor (Sanford and Son) (died 2020) April 3: Lee Leonard: U.S. television personality (died 2018) April ...
Month Day Event January: 13: Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson performs the first successful public television broadcast. The pictures, with 48 lines at 16 frames per second, are received on sets with 1.5 sq. inch screens in the homes of four General Electric executives in Schenectady, New York.