ABSTRACT
In June 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,
Broadcastmagazine 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.
