ABSTRACT
The end of the long road from 1878 was reached during 1925–1926 when the television art emerged from the laboratory into the public domain. Some half-dozen demonstrations by Baird and Jenkins showed steady progress ranging from the transmission of shadows and silhouettes to the ultimate success—true television with moving objects and faces reproduced in light and shade. Television became a subject in its own right, rather than an offshoot of phototelegraphy and radio, as a flow of articles and news reports brought inventors' progress to the public eye.
