ABSTRACT
Prospects for television as a viable art improved steadily during 1927 with an influx of inventors, writers, and commentators. A measure of the progress is shown by the number of articles, lectures, and demonstrations, each of which increased threefold over the average annual rate of the previous period (1925–1926). On the same basis, the number of patent applications more than doubled, with seventy-nine (excluding duplicates and others on auxiliaries) compared with thirty-four. Further evidence of the rising interest is shown in the number of newcomers attracted to the field; thirty-two compared with twenty for the two previous years. Of these, eighteen were independent, the others being allied with industrial concerns, primarily in the United States.
