The History of Television
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Introduction
The development of a working television that could receive moving images via electromagnetic waves and then display them on an electronic device took many different innovations. The word television was first coined in 19 hundred by a paper by the russian scientist constantine persky, which was delivered at the paris world's fair. In 19 26, a huge leap was made when scottish inventor james baird demonstrated what is considered the first true television to a group of 50 scientists in london. Also in 19 28, federal radio commission granted an experimental amateur license to call three x k, to broadcast movies with a resolution of eight inches over 438 miles of telephone lines from glasgow to london.
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