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George Carey desribes a system for sending and receiving images.
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Paul Nipkow describes and recieves patent for rotating, scanning disk, which is by many the first tv.
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Constantine Persky coins the word television.
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Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images.
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The first public demononstration of a track meet is shown.
In 1910, a wireless telegraphic station is used in Beloit col -
Zworkin develops the kinescope for picture display (aka the reciever).
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John Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk
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John Baird operates a television system with 30 lines of resolution system running at 5 frames per second.
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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 9th.
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John Baird opens the first TV studio.
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Iowa State University (W9XK) starts broadcasting twice weekly television programs in cooperation with radio station WSUI.
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About 200 hundred television sets are in use world-wide.
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CBS begins its TV development.
The BBC begins high definition broadcasts in London. -
Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resolution color television system.
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Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated his color television system to the FCC.
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Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania as a means of bringing television to rural areas.
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Ampex introduces the first practical videotape system of broadcast quality.
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The first split screen broadcast occurs on the Kennedy - Nixon debates.
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AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts - broadcasts are now internationally relayed.
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Half of home TV sets are in color.
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PBS becomes the first station to switch to all satellite delivery of programs.
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