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  2. 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.

  3. List of years in television - Wikipedia

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    First TV broadcasts in France on February 13 on Paris PTT Vision. 1936: The 1936 Summer Olympics becomes the first Olympic Games to be broadcast on television. 1937: The BBC Television Service broadcasts the world's first televised Shakespeare play, a thirty-minute version of Twelfth Night, and the first football match, Arsenal F.C. vs. Arsenal ...

  4. List of Canon products - Wikipedia

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    Canon (1936) Known today as the "Original Canon" The viewfinder moved to the top of the camera, differing from the Leica; Hansa Canon (1936) Omiya Trading Co marketed original Canon with the Hansa name above the Canon name on the top; Canon S (1939) Standard model. The word "Hansa" disappeared from the brand name, and was replaced with just "Canon"

  5. Western canon - Wikipedia

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    The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.

  6. History of film - Wikipedia

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    This newly introduced form of creativity made way for a whole new group of people to be introduced to stardom, including David W. Griffith, who made a name for himself with his 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation. In 1920, there were two major changes to the film industry: the introduction of sound and the creation of studio systems.

  7. History of television - Wikipedia

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    A television set, also called a television receiver, television, TV set, TV, or telly, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, television sets became a popular consumer product after World War II in electronic form, using cathode ray tubes .

  8. 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.

  9. Canon Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The number includes second-generation subsidiaries, for example, Canon IT Solutions Inc. Canon's world headquarters is located at 30-2 Shimomaruko 3-chome, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146–8501, Japan. Canon has regional headquarters in America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Japan, Asia and Oceania (including Australia & New Zealand).