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It sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the electric telescope with 18 lines of resolution.
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The Audion vacuum tube that proved essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ability to amplify signals
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Bell Telephone and the U.S. Department of Commerce conduct the first long distance use of television that took place between Washington D.C. and New York City on April 7th.
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Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial. The BBC begins regular TV transmissions.
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CBS begins its TV development. The BBC begins high definition broadcasts in London.
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Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated his color television system to the FCC. His system produced color pictures by having a red-blue-green wheel spin in front of a cathode ray tube.
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Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania as a means of bringing television to rural areas.
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An avergae one to two tv sets per house in america
