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Big Dream Small Screen | Timeline TV Milestones 1920's-30's
Philo Farnsworth patents his "dissector tube" in 1927. It turns out to be an important component in the development of all-electronic television.
Television's first drama,The Queen's Messenger, is broadcast from Schenectady, New York station WGY on September 11, 1928.
Russian-born, American scientist Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates the first practical electronic system for both the transmission and reception of images in 1929.
The Communications Act of 1934 ushers in an era of government regulation of television airwaves.
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