From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
The year 1926 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1926.
Global television events
Month |
Day |
Event |
January |
26 |
John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images with tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second. |
August |
18 |
A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. |
December |
25 |
Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a cathode ray tube in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.[1] |
Births
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