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a 23-year old german university student named paul nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system.
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the first television system using fully electronic scanning and display elements was in vented by hungarian engineer Kálmán Tihanyi.
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scottish inventer john baird invented the worlds first video recording system.
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The first British television broadcast was made by Baird Television's electromechanical system over the BBC radio transmitter.
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the united states was the first country to get television between 1930-1939
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the first flat panel display system was invented by Kálmán Tihanyi
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programs were hosted by single advertisers during the 1940s and into the 1950s
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The world's first 625-line television standard was designed in the Soviet Union.
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The first broadcast in 625-line standard occurred in Moscow.
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it is estimated that approximately 26.8 million UK private domestic households own televisions, with approximately 25 million TV Licences in all premises in force as of 2010