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- 1956 | The first long distance transmission of television happens on April 9, between New York City and Washington, D. C. A patent for the first complete electronic television system is filed by Philo Farnsworth. He calls it the Image Dissector. The first real tv device in my timeline of the history of television.
The first television station gets its license from the Federal Radio Commission. The call letters for the station are W3XK. The first transatlantic television image is sent from the United States to Europe. The first color television demonstration takes place in New York. The first play to be televised is "The Queen's Messenger," on station WGY in New York.
John Baird opens the very first television studio. Image quality was not very good. Bell Laboratories develops a system for transmitting television images.
The first television commercial is broadcast. BBC, NBC and CBS begin broadcasting.
Japan has its first television broadcast.
Approximately 200 television sets are used worldwide.
The Klystron is introduced. It makes UHF-TV possible through the generation of high-frequency microwaves.
Some televisions had to be connected to a radio in order to hear sound.
A color television system is invented by Peter Goldmark that used 343 lines of resolution.
The Orthicon is invented by Vladimir Zworkin. It is sensitive enough to record outdoors at night.
Peter Goldmark demonstrated a mechanical color television system to the FCC. It was used in 1949 to broadcast medical procedures between hospitals in Atlantic City and Pennsylvania. Television sets are sold in department stores for the first time in the timeline of the history of television.
Cable television is used in Pennsylvania to bring television to rural regions. Louis Parker gets a patent on a low-cost television receiver. In the United States, one million homes have television sets.
The FCC accepts a standard for color television developed by CBS. In the United States, 8 million television sets are in use.
The NAACP condemns television's Amos 'n Andy as racist.
Television broadcasting begins in Canada.
The FCC drops the CBS standard for color television and adopts one by RCA instead. The new standard is compatible with existing black-and-white sets.
Breaktrough in this timeline of the history of television: Both NBC and CBS begin broadcasting regularly in color, even though only 1 in 100 households in the United States have a color TV.
The first videotape system is introduced. The first remote control is invented by Robert Adler. | Timeline of The History of Television 2 1 3
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