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Ernst Alexanderson is proclaimed the "Inventor of Television" by the press in St. Louis
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Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor
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Philo Farnsworth was the fisrt person to transmit a televised image comprised of 60 horizontal lines it was a dollar sign
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Experimental broadcast television began in the early 1930s, transmitting fuzzy images of wrestling, music and dance to a handful of screen.
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Patent interference between Zworykin and Farnsworth ruled in favor of Farnsworth. Prevents RCA from gaining total patent control of television
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Summer Berlin Olympics televised by Telefunken and Fernseh, using RCA and Farnsworth equipment, respectively.
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President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, who was the first president to appear on television. At the New York World Fair
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In 1939, RCA televised the opening of the New York World's Fair,
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RCA began selling television sets with 5 by 12 in (12.7 by 25.4 cm) picture tubes.
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RCA, the company that dominated the radio business in the United States with its two NBC networks, invested $50 million in the development of electronic television
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The company also began broadcasting regular programs, including scenes captured by a mobile unit and, on May 17, 1939, the first televised baseball game and between Princeton and Columbia universities
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CBS was broadcasting two 15-minute newscasts a day to a tiny audience on its New York television station.
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USA experiments with TV guided misiles
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German broadcast from Paris via Eiffel Tower
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CBS gave the FCC a demonstration of their mechanical color system.
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CBS presents color television system using a spinning mechanical color wheel. In October, the FCC approves CBS color for commercial broadcasting
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It was 1951, and President Harry Truman was speaking before a conference in San Francisco about the treaty that officially ended the country’s post-WWII occupation of Japan.
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TELSTAR was the 1st of these satellites. TELSTAR was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on July 10th. The next day the world's 1st satellite transmission of a short television program took place between Andover, MN and Pleumeur-Bodou, France.
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The very first prototype for a plasma display monitor was invented in 1964 by Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson.
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Half of all U.S households have a colored television
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In 1972 the Phillips Corporation introduced video cassette recording (VCR) for the home.
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Heavyweight championship fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. While the broadcast networks would have to wait a day or so for tapes of the fight to be flown in, subscribing cable viewers saw this historic fight as it was happening.
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In 1981 NHK, the Japanese National Broadcasting company, demonstrated their 1,125 line HDTV system to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers at their Winter conference in San Francisco.
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The Cobsy show first aired on 1984 and NBC untill 1992
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By 1985 the VHS format dominated the U.S. home market.
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Will Smith stars in the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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In 1994 HDTV standards were established and a plan for the transition from analog to digital transmission of television programming has been rolled out throughout the decade.
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99% of households have a television in the ouse
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The show Family Matters aires on CBS on 1997-1998
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That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979.
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It debuted on the Fox television network, first airing in 1998, running for eight consecutive seasons, and concluding with the 200th episode on May 18, 2006.
