The Story Of Television

Shows efforts of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in the creation, development and introduction of the all-electronic TV system; explains how science made television a working reality. David Sarnoff tells of the early research and experiments. Shown is the first successful picture tube, the first experimental TV station, the problems of improving piucture quality and reducing the size and cost of components at the transmitting and receiving ends, and the function of mobile units. Actual scenes from TV "firsts" are included -- President Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair, the visit of the King and Queen of England, and the 1940 Republican Convention in Philadelphia. Animated diagrams demonstrate how a TV camera converts electronic beams into a picture.

[@manhoot]

Of note, RCA once had the largest color television factory in the world in Bloomington. Today it is abandoned.

[@vacman91]

My great grandfather used to worked there.

[@ssjlkrillin]

John Logie Baird invented the mechanical television. And, it was actually Philo Farnsworth, not Vladimir Zworykin that invented the electronic television. Alas, he was not an employee of RCA...

[@waynejackson3162]

Between the 1920s,and 1940s, there was a number of inventors racing against the clock, trying to be the first to claim the invention,Zworkin was first,Farnsworth had a patent, but Baird, and Zworkin were at least 10 years ahead.

[@Rickwaldron1960]

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[@MrPlannery]

perhaps I'm missing something, but wasn't TV invented by John Logie Baird?

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

no

[@erin19030]

It was only one of the first ideas, but of poor quality.

[@MrPlannery]

@@erin19030 @Jim Haldeman of course it was of poor quality, but Baird gave the world's first demonstration of true television before 50 scientists in central London in early 1926. In 1928 he also achieved the first transatlantic television transmission between London and New York and the first transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic. He's also credited with giving the first demonstration of both color and stereoscopic television.
So all in all, worth a decent mention, no?

[@only257]

🙂rifftrax needs to make fun of this

[@antiheroine3611]

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