The Almanac

September 7

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1927

    The first all-electronic television image

    A 21-year-old inventor named Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first television picture made entirely with electronics, a simple straight line, in his San Francisco lab. Earlier TV had used spinning mechanical disks. Farnsworth's electronic approach is the one every television since has been built on.

    Source: Wikipedia

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