{"id":21843,"date":"2016-06-13T06:43:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T10:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21843"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:58:15","slug":"june-13-1925-first-us-tv-demonstration-91-years-ago-today-charles-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21843","title":{"rendered":"June 13, 1925&#8230;First US TV Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 13, 1925&#8230;First US TV Demonstration <\/p>\n<p>91 years ago today, Charles Francis Jenkins presented the first public demonstration of television in America, with a synchronized  transmission of images and sound. Using an electro-mechanical Nipkow spot scanner, the silhouetted image of a toy windmill was broadcast wirelessly over a five mile path from a naval radio facility in Anacostia, to Washington DC, where it was viewed by members of the Federal Trade Commission, the navy and patent office officials. <\/p>\n<p>Two months earlier, Charles Logie Baird had done almost the same at Europe&#8217;s first public demonstration at Selfridge&#8217;s Department Store in London. The Jenkins system used only &#8220;shadowgraph&#8221; images, which were silhouetted images, while Baird&#8217;s system used lifelike subjects (a dummy&#8217;s head) lit with and arc light. For more, here&#8217;s a good link. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bairdtelevision.com\/jenkins.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bairdtelevision.com\/jenkins.html<\/a>  -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1025206407516908\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/June-13-1925...First-US-TV-Demonstration-91-years-ago-today-Charles-Francis\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1025206407516908\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162828_646_June-13-1925...First-US-TV-Demonstration-91-years-ago-today-Charles-Francis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1025213177516231\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13, 1925&#8230;First US TV Demonstration 91 years ago today, Charles Francis Jenkins presented the first public demonstration of television in America, with a synchronized transmission of images and sound. Using an electro-mechanical Nipkow spot scanner, the silhouetted image of a toy windmill was broadcast wirelessly over a five mile path from a naval radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[724],"class_list":["post-21843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}