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So.who invented it?? The controversy.

• No other invention in history has been so hotly
  disputed as the prestigious claim to the
  invention of 'Tele-vision or 'long-distance
  sight' by wireless.
• Since Marconis invention of wireless telegraphy
  in 1897, the imagination of many inventors have
  been sparked with the notion of sending images as
  well as sound, wirelessly. The first documented
  notion of sending components of pictures over a
  series of multiple circuits is credited to George
  Carey. Another inventor, W. E. Sawyer, suggested
  the possibility of sending an image over a single
  wire by rapidly scanning parts of the picture in
  succession.

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So.who invented it??

• On December 2, 1922, in Sorbonne, France, Edwin
  Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the
  transmission of photographs by wire as well as
  fiber optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical
  scanning device that was an early precursor to
  modern television. Belins machine took flashes
  of light and directed them at a selenium element
  connected to an electronic device that produced
  sound waves. These sound waves could be received
  in another location and remodulated into flashes
  of light on a mirror.
• The credit as to who was the inventor of modern
  television really comes down to two different
  people in two different places both working on
  the same problem at about the same time
• Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American
  inventor working for Westinghouse, and
• Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a privately backed farm
  boy from the state of Utah. Zworykin is
  usually credited as being the father of modern
  television.
• the patent for the heart of the TV, the electron
  scanning tube, was first applied for by Zworykin
  in 1923, under the name of an iconoscope. The
  iconoscope was an electronic image scanner -
  essentially a primitive television camera.
• Farnsworth was the first of the two inventors to
  successfully demonstrate the transmission of
  television signals, which he did on September 7,
  1927, using a scanning tube of his own design.
  Farnsworth received a patent for his electron
  scanning tube in 1930.

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So.who invented it??

• Another player of the times was John Logie Baird,
  a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur who
  'achieved his first transmissions of simple face
  shapes in 1924 using mechanical television. On
  March 25, 1925, Baird held his first public
  demonstration of 'television' at the London
  department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in
  London. In this demonstration, he had not yet
  obtained adequate half-tones in the moving
  pictures, and only silhouettes were visible.' -
  MZTV
• In the late thirties, when RCA and Zworykin, who
  was now working for RCA, tried to claim rights to
  the essence of television, it became evident that
  Farnsworth held the priority patent in the
  technology. The president of RCA sought to
  control television the same way that they
  controlled radio and vowed that,
• RCA earns royalties, it does not pay them, and
  a 50 million dollar legal battle subsequently
  ensued.
• In the height of the legal battle for patent
  priority, Farnsworths high school science
  teacher was subpoenaed and traveled to Washington
  to testify that as a 14 year old, Farnsworth had
  shared his ideas of his television scanning tube
  with his teacher.

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And the winner is.

• Patent priority status ruled in favor of
  Farnsworth.
• RCA, for the first time in its history, began
  paying royalties for television in 1939. Philo
  Farnsworth was recently named one of TIME
  Magazine's 100 Greatest Scientists and Thinkers
  of the 20th Century.

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1928Television started in the 1920s as a
peepshow device. This means, the images could
only be seen by one viewer gazing into a narrow
opening. The quality of these early,, television
sets, with tiny vertical screens, was very poor.
However, the images where there and received in a
large part of Europe via the 'short wave', also
used for radio.
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1934Many early television sets where housed in
huge Art-Deco cabinets, often wonderful examples
of furniture design. Even these large, pre 1936,
cabinets only displayed a tiny 30 lines
television screen
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The first commercial television sets came on the
market in 1930 by the Baird Television
Development Company LTD. These sets however
where expensive and housed in a cast iron cabinet
of beautiful design
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1941
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Television During World War-II

• World War-II halted nearly all television
  broadcasting worldwide
• All commercial production of television equipment
  is banned for the remainder of the war. 
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• NBC's commercial TV schedule is canceled. 
• Television is allowed to continue broadcasting on
  a very limited basis at some stations.  In
  England, however, ALL broadcasting comes to a
  complete halt, until June 7, 1946.
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1946

• The United States returns to peace time
  production.
•   RCA begins production of 630-TS, the first
  television designed and manufactured after the
  war.  Approximately 10,000 units sold by the end
  of the year, with about 43,000 sold of this model
  before production ends in 1949.  Other
  manufacturers used the RCA chassis, and placed it
  in a cabinet of their own design.  The initial
  RCA selling price was 352. 

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Responses

•   One of television's critics, Darryl F. Zanuck,
  head of 20th Century Fox (movies) was quoted
  saying  "Television won't be able to hold on to
  any market it captures after the first six
  months.  People will soon get tired of staring at
  a plywood box every night." 

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Firsts

•   1946 May 9th -- Hourglass the first hour-long
  musical variety show, airs over NBC's three
  stations (New York City, Schenectady and
  Philadelphia).
•   1946 June 19th -- The first televised
  heavyweight fight (Joe Louis vs Billy Conn),
  viewed by a record 140,000 (mostly at bars which
  had sets installed).  One year later, the
  Louis-Walcott fight is viewed by 1,000,000
  people.
•   1946 October 2nd -- Faraway Hills becomes the
  first TV soap opera, airing on the new DuMont
  network May 7th -- Kraft Television Theatre
  starts on NBC, becoming the first commercial TV
  dramatic series.
• 1947 May 7th -- Kraft Television Theatre starts
  on NBC, becoming the first commercial TV dramatic
  series.
• 1947 September 30 -- First telecast of a World
  Series game.  NY Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1947 October 5th -- Harry Truman becomes the
  first president to make an address to the public
  on TV from the White House.  He discusses the
  international food crisis, proposing meatless
  Tuesdays

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1947 stat

• About 44,000 TV sets in the US, vs 40 million
  radios
• December 29th -- Howdy Doody Time begins its
  first broadcast on NBC.

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1948

• By July of 1948, estimates are that 350,000 TV
  sets are in operation in the USA.  3/4 of these
  are in the eastern network cities, and half are
  around New York City.
• 27 Stations in 18 different cities are in full
  operation.
• Only one in ten Americans has seen a television
  set up to this point.
• About two dozen different TV set models are on
  sale, ranging from Pilot's 3" set at 100, to
  DuMont's 20" set at 2,495 (28,000 in today's
  money!).

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1948 continued.And the advertising begins.

• Gillette pays 100,000 (1.1 Million today) for
  the right to televise the Louis-Walcott return
  boxing match
• Average of 3.47 persons watch each night per set
  in a household.
• Of the 42 hours of TV available for viewing per
  week, the average set is operating for 17 hours.
• 68 of the viewers remember the names of the
  programs' sponsors

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1949

• TV sales expand at a rapid rate -- are 600 ahead
  of 1948.
• Laws prohibiting the installation of TVs in
  automobiles are enacted.
• Howdy Doody merchandising tops 11 million for
  the year.

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1950

• APRIL  5,343,000 TV sets are in American Homes
• SEPTEMBER 7,535,000 TV sets in USA
• OCTOBER      8,000,000 TV sets -- 107 stations

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1951

• FEBRUARY DuMont established the first
  international hook-up (with Cuba)
• Milton Berle gets 30 year 100,000 per year
  contract to do 360 shows.
• JUNE 13,000,000 television sets in the USA
• SEPTEMBER 4th First coast-to-coast telecast
  (President Truman speaks)
• OCTOBER 15th  I Love Lucy show premieres on CBS

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1953

• 50 of Americans now have a television set
  (25,233,000 homes)

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1954

• MARCH   First color commercial by Pall Mall
  cigarettes
•  APRIL  RCA Launches COLOR Television, with the
  sale of the CT-100, at 1,000 a copy.  Less than
  5,000 sell the first year.

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1955

•  RCA SELLS 20,000 COLOR TV SETS -- most all are
  21" models.
• Average Annual Salary 5,000
• Average cost of BW TV- 200
• Average cost of colour TV 1000

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1956

• NOVEMBER  The videotape is first used by CBS,
  causing the impending death of the kinescopes -
  filmed television screens. 
•  RCA SELLS 90,000 COLOR TV SETS -- Model CT-4
• As the World Turn begins.

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1957
41,000,000 homes now have television in the USA
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1959

• 42,000,000 American homes have television, some
  have 2 sets already
• RCA SELLS 90,000 COLOR TV SETS -- Model CT-9.  In
  1960, after spending more than 130 Million in
  research and advertising, color television
  finally records its first profit for RCA. 

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