ABSTRACT
In June of 1925, Charles Francis Jenkins successfully transmitted a series of motion pictures of a small windmill to a receiving facility over five miles away. The image included 48 lines of resolution and lasted ten minutes. This demonstration would move the television from an engineer’s lark to reality. By 1935,
Broadcast
magazine listed 27 different television broadcast facilities across the nation, some with as many as 45 hours of broadcast a week. Although the television set was still a toy for the prosperous, the number of broadcast facilities began to multiply rapidly.
