ABSTRACT
The vigorous growth of television during 1928 was not sustained in 1929. An increase in patent applications was offset by a decline in reportorial accounts and popular literature, a lessening that was in sympathy with reduced public interest. The drums announcing the arrival of real television in the home had been banged too hard and too long, while the dramatic events of 1928 had not led to demonstrable progress of the kind that would serve the public. Experimental services were still limited to amateurs who had no real visual equivalent of regular aural broadcasts to support or broaden their activities. Industrial participation in the United States similarly did not expand the home market as had been expected. Apart from inventive enthusiasm, the bright optimism that generally prevailed during 1928 now appeared somewhat streaked with doubt, despite a continued series of demonstrations and transmissions.
