The Journey of TV Continues

Hi Guys,

If you are super interested and want to fill in all of the really technical stuff or just the holes in this little TV Journey, I am giving you the link to read up on it to your little heart's content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_TV#Electronic_television

If you want to continue on the shorter journey with me, we'll go on where we left off.

I hadn't realized that RCA was in on it from practically the very beginning, or at least from where we as consumers knew it.

As with so many things there was a patent suit that ended up with RCA pay for license payments for patents by Philo Farnsworth (they already had purchased Westinghouse's patent of the cathode ray tube) who transmitted the first live human images by his television system in 1929 (not yet to the public).

As I said before, my husband saw TV for the first time at the San Francisco World Fair when he was a kid, and had one in his shop before he had one personally.

I remember the first TV my family ever had was in 1957. I was ten. We were moving from Rogue River, OR to San Jose, CA and my dad was buying us a three bedroom trailer to live in and said he would buy it if they threw in the TV. I don't remember how big it was, I don't imagine the screen was very bit, but I didn't care. I remember the main thing was I got to watch the Mickey Mouse Club when I got home from school.

My husband said that when TV was introduced in the Bay Area (California), there was only one station and it was in 1949, (Channel 5, which was an independent station that eventually became CBS, Westinghouse).

It was years before color TV was available to the public, but believe it or not there was a patent application in Russian in 1889 for a mechanically-scanned color system and the first world's color transmission was demonstrated on July 3, 1928.

We'll start with that exciting exploration next time. Have a wonderful day!!

See ya!