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Common terms and phrasesAbramson Alexanderson all-electronic American announced apparatus April Baird Television began Berlin Bilby black-and-white broadcasting building called camera tube cathode cathode-ray tube color system commercial television Corporation David Sarnoff demonstration dollars elec electrical electron beam electronic television Elma Farnsworth engineer equipment Ernst Alexanderson Everson Farns Fernseh film finally Gardner Goldmark Iconoscope idea Image Dissector industry invention inventor Jenkins John Logie Baird Kinescope laboratory later light Marconi McCargar mechanical mechanical television memo months movie moving never Nipkow disk NTSC operating Paley patent Phil Philadelphia Philco Philo Farnsworth photoelectric picture problem produced radio RCA's receiving tube San Francisco scanning scene scientists screen selenium signal sion station tele television research television system thousand tion took transmission transmitted turned Udelson vision Vladimir Zworykin wave Westinghouse wireless wires wrote York Zworykin References to this bookFrom other books
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