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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.
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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.
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Charles Jenkins used the original model with the disk to create a television system.
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The first television studio was created by John Logie Baird.
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth created the first electrical television system after years of hard work.
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The first experimental broadcasting began. It trasmitted pictures on a small screen.
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Mechanical systems converted to electrical systems which is what we use today.
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The first NBC TV studio was opened during the World's fair in New York.
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The Ed Sullivan Show, Candid Camera, Howdy Doody, Philco Playhouse, and Kukla, Fran & Ollie started being showed, and Meet the Press started broadcasting.
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A young girl fell into a well in LA, and the coverage lasted for 27 hours. This allowed LA to be closer together.
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Pat Weaver of NBC created a morning newscast that became very important in the 1950s.
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The first quiz show, The $64,000 Question, was created and became more popluar than the other shows around durin that time.
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The Telstar and Relay satellites were launched.
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President Johnson adressed US citizens that he was going to have air strikes on North Vietnamese bases.
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CBS and NBC broadcasted it.
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The moon landing of Apollo 11 was telvised.
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NBC was covering the Olympics when they found out that Palestinians held Israeli athletes hostage and were killing them and reported on it.
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Barbara Walters became the first woman co-anchor.
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