Item #44776 "TELEVISION In COLORS" [as published in] BELL LABORATORIES RECORD. July 1929. Vol 7 No. 11. Herbert E. Findley Ives, Paul B. - Managing.
"TELEVISION In COLORS" [as published in] BELL LABORATORIES RECORD. July 1929. Vol 7 No. 11.

"TELEVISION In COLORS" [as published in] BELL LABORATORIES RECORD. July 1929. Vol 7 No. 11.

New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. 1929. 1st Printing. 433 - 477, [3] pp. Television article, pages 439 - 444. Journal illustrated throughout, primarily with b/w photographic images. 8vo. Original publisher's prined light orange paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Light wear & soiling to wrappers. Prior owner name inked in top margin of the front cover. A VG+ copy. Item #44776

Television, as we know it, came about in the 1920s. "Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first color transmission on 3 July 1928 ... Baird also made the world's first color broadcast on 4 February 1938, sending a mechanically scanned 120-line image from Baird's Crystal Palace studios to a projection screen at London's Dominion Theatre. Mechanically scanned color television was also demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image."

It is this latter feat that is discussed by Ives in this 1929 article, a very early piece on color television.

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