{"id":22101,"date":"2016-04-07T04:35:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T08:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22101"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:39:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:39:38","slug":"april-7-1927-two-firsts-in-long-distance-tv-transmissionon-this-day-in-192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22101","title":{"rendered":"April 7, 1927&#8230;Two Firsts In Long Distance TV Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 1927&#8230;Two Firsts In Long Distance TV Transmission<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1927, then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover&#8217;s image was transmitted via AT&amp;T from Washington to New York using a mechanical system developed by Herbert E. Ives. This is the first time television was sent on long distance wires.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo above, Dr. Ives is on the far right, watching AT&amp;T president Walter Gifford, in New York, speak with Secretary Hoover in Washington. The conversation, in which both men could see and hear each other, was a two way television\/telephone hookup, which is also a first.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oVnQuBW6x9\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/1930-television-gives-radio-eyes-and-ears\/\">1930: Television Gives Radio Eyes and Ears<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c1930: Television Gives Radio Eyes and Ears\u201d \u2014 Eyes Of A Generation...Television&amp;apos;s Living History\" src=\"https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/1930-television-gives-radio-eyes-and-ears\/embed\/#?secret=DiWINrGCgz#?secret=oVnQuBW6x9\" data-secret=\"oVnQuBW6x9\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the link above, is a story and pictures, from an August 1930 issue of &#8220;Modern Mechanics&#8221; that discusses this, and some other interesting developments from 1929 television tests, like color.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is the first time a television signal was sent over long distance lines, it was not the first time pictures were sent on a telephone line. That occurred Oct. 3, 1922, as Charles Francis Jenkins, transmitted &#8220;shadowgraph&#8221; images from his studio in a Washington DC suburb to the main post office there, via telephone wires, some five miles away. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/988517387852477\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/April-7-1927...Two-Firsts-In-Long-Distance-TV-Transmission-On-this-day-in-192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/988517387852477\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 1927&#8230;Two Firsts In Long Distance TV Transmission On this day in 1927, then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover&#8217;s image was transmitted via AT&amp;T from Washington to New York using a mechanical system developed by Herbert E. Ives. This is the first time television was sent on long distance wires. 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