Years in Television - 1920s

1920s

• 1923 in television: Vladimir Zworykin patents the "iconoscope", the first ancestor of the electric scanning television camera.
• 1925 in television: On October 2, John Logie Baird achieves transmission and remote display of the first television pictures in his laboratory.
• 1926 in television: On January 26, Baird gives the first public demonstration of mechanical television to members of the Royal Institution. This is generally regarded as the worlds first public demonstration of a true television system.
• 1927 in television: Baird demonstrates the first ever system for recording television. His Phonovision system records pictures and sound on conventional 78rpm gramophone records. On January 1 British Broadcasting Corporation received Royal Charter. NBC is founded.
• 1928 in television: Baird demonstrates a mechanical colour television system. On May 28, the first television station, W2XB (forerunner to WRGB), begins broadcasting mechanical television in Schenectady, New York. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is founded.
• 1929 in television: In September, the Baird Television Development Company begins experimental broadcasting in association with the BBC.