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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 [1] – 9 December 1814) was an English inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having improved the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic press . Along with William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong , he can be considered one of the two fathers of hydraulic engineering.
13 April – Joseph Bramah, inventor and locksmith (died 1814) 28 May – Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (died 1825) August – James Sayers, caricaturist (died 1823) 14 December – William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (died 1811)
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.
This is a list of the longest-running U.S. broadcast network television series, ordered by the number of broadcast seasons.. To qualify for this list, the programming must originate in North America, be shown on a United States national (not regional) television network, and be first-run (as opposed to a repackaging of previously aired material or material released in other media).
1748 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1748th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 748th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1748, the ...
Longest-running religious television program to broadcast in color. 68 years 68 The Open Mind: Syndicated [m] May 1956 [8] present Longest-running public television program. 68 years 64 NFL on CBS: CBS September 30, 1956 January 23, 1994 6,133 [citation needed] CBS originally broadcast NFL games from 1956 to its merger with the AFL in 1970.