Topic: TV - on April 6, 2007 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
The TV Is Dead. Long Live the TV
A narrow beam of light sweeps over Herbert Hoover's doughy face and through the tiny holes of a spinning disk in Washington D.C. The live image snakes some 200 miles on telephone wires to Whippany, New Jersey, then 22 miles by wireless to New York City where observers see the tiny but unmistakable figure of the future U.S. president, speechifying at 18 frames per second in the orange glow of a 2x2.5-inch neon lamp.
"Television, a scientific dream ever since the telephone was perfected, has at last been realized," enthused an Indianapolis Star news report of the event, which made history on April 7, 1927 as the first public demonstration of a long distance TV broadcast.
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