Dec 5, 2008

Salem on History | Bell System Demonstrates Long-Distance Television

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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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Salem on History | Bell System Demonstrates Long-Distance Television

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Hints of Television

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