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First Mechanical Teliveison Module
In Germany, a student, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, was able to transmit pictures through wires with a rotating metal disk. It was called the electric telescope. -
New Television System
Seperate inventors, A.A. Campbell-Swinton of England and Boris Rosing of Russia used a cathode ray tube with the mechanical scanner system to make a new system. -
First Mechanical System
Charles Jenkins used the original model with the disk to create a television system. -
First Televison Studio
The first television studio was created by John Logie Baird. -
First Electric Television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth created the first electrical television system after years of hard work. -
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Experimental Broadcasting Began
The first experimental broadcasting began. It trasmitted pictures on a small screen. -
Televisions Convert to Electrical Systems
Mechanical systems converted to electrical systems which is what we use today. -
First Major League Baseball Game on TV
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NBC TV Studio
The first NBC TV studio was opened during the World's fair in New York. -
TV Became More Popular
The Ed Sullivan Show, Candid Camera, Howdy Doody, Philco Playhouse, and Kukla, Fran & Ollie started being showed, and Meet the Press started broadcasting. -
Uniting a City
A young girl fell into a well in LA, and the coverage lasted for 27 hours. This allowed LA to be closer together. -
Rise and Shine
Pat Weaver of NBC created a morning newscast that became very important in the 1950s. -
Quix Shows
The first quiz show, The $64,000 Question, was created and became more popluar than the other shows around durin that time. -
First Satellites were launched.
The Telstar and Relay satellites were launched. -
Press Conference
President Johnson adressed US citizens that he was going to have air strikes on North Vietnamese bases. -
Super Bowl Broadcasted in Color
CBS and NBC broadcasted it. -
Moon Landing
The moon landing of Apollo 11 was telvised. -
Summer Olympics in Germany
NBC was covering the Olympics when they found out that Palestinians held Israeli athletes hostage and were killing them and reported on it. -
First Woman Co-Anchor
Barbara Walters became the first woman co-anchor. -
CNN was Launched