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  2. List of years in television - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. History of television - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 1748 in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    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)

  5. Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

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    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.

  6. 1748 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow - Wikipedia

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    Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈgɔtliːp ˈnɪpkɔv]; 22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental component in the first televisions. [1]

  8. 1748 in science - Wikipedia

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    The year 1748 in science and technology involved some significant events. Archaeology ... English inventor (died 1814) May 10 – Louis Pierre Vieillot, ...

  9. Charles Francis Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    Charles Francis Jenkins (August 22, 1867 – June 6, 1934) was an American engineer who was a pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies.