Stone to Silicon

Communication · 1927

Television

Moving images are sent electronically, and the living room gets a window on the world.

John Logie Baird demonstrated mechanical television in 1926, and Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first all-electronic image in September 1927. Regular broadcasting began in the 1930s, and by 1960 about 90 percent of US homes had a set.

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