ABSTRACT
February 17, 1931: The first closed-circuit telecast of a sporting event was a baseball game played by the Waseda University baseball club. The images were not seen by the public and were transmitted directly to the Electrical Laboratory at Waseda University in Tokyo. (See figure 11.2.)
Television, What’s in a Name? In the early1920s it was called visual listening, audiovision, telectroscopy, telephonoscope, raduo, electric vision, and radiovision. Finally, television seemed to be the name everyone accepted. The name television comes from “tele” (far off) and “vision” (to see).
