Tue, May 13
|on Zoom
Rockville Science Tuesday Lecture Series
Join us on Zoom for this month's lecture, “Television in the 1920’s” with Dr. Brian Blenger, Curator of the National Capital Radio and Television Museum
Time & Location
May 13, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
on Zoom
About the event
Science Tuesday (Online)
“Television in the 1920’s” with Dr. Brian Blenger, Curator of the National Capital Radio and Television Museum
Tuesday, May 13, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
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Few Americans had an opportunity to view television broadcasts before the late 1940s or early 1950s. Color television broadcasting did not begin until 1954. But there was much experimentation long before that. Even in the 1890s, scientists were describing in some detail how someday people might be able to view live moving pictures in their living rooms. The first published book on the history of television had a copyright date of 1911! The first color television patent was filed in 1904, but it took exactly a half century before color TV became readily available to consumers. There was experimental television in the Washington, DC, area beginning in 1928, using motor-drive spinning discs to create the moving image.…