Bell System Demonstrates Long-Distance Television
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Inventors, Television, Radio, Broadcasting, Communications
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: 1927
Article abstract: In 1927, in the first public demonstration of long-distance television in the United States, live images of Herbert Hoover were sent from Washington, D.C., to New York City.
Hints of Television
The invention of television was not the discovery of one scientist. Long before the 1927 demonstration by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), television was being developed in Germany, England, France, Russia, Japan, and the United States. No sudden flash of inspiration came to one inventor. An idea that existed long before...
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