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Television pioneer Charles Francis Jenkins inspecting his broadcasting apparatus in 1928. Everett Collection HIstorical

The transatlantic race to create the television

Charles Francis Jenkins and John Logie Baird both wowed public audiences with their new image-transmitting devices in 1925.
The first BBC television transmissions, September 1929. Science Museum

How public TV broadcasting was born

The first public television broadcast took place on September 30, 1929. The world would never be the same again.

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