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| August || 18 || A [[weather map]] is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] in Washington, D.C. |
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| December || 25 || Japanese researcher [[Kenjiro Takayanagi]] demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a [[cathode ray tube]] in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.<ref>The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in [[Japan]], [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/ Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television].</ref> |
| December || 25 || Japanese researcher [[Kenjiro Takayanagi]] demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a [[cathode ray tube]] in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.<ref>The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in [[Japan]], [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/ Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101180643/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/ |date=January 1, 2016 }}.</ref> |
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The year 1926 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1926.
Global television events
Month | Day | Event |
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January | 26 | John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images with tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second. |
August | 18 | A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. |
December | 25 | Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a cathode ray tube in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.[1] |
Births
Month | Day | Name | Occupation/Accolades |
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January | 08 | Soupy Sales | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2009) |
April | 22 | Charlotte Rae | U.S. actress and singer |
30 | Cloris Leachman | U.S. actress | |
May | 05 | Ann B. Davis | U.S. actress (died 2014) |
08 | Sir David Attenborough | British naturalist and documentary-maker | |
Don Rickles | U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017) | ||
June | 01 | Andy Griffith | U.S. actor, writer, and television producer (died 2012) |
28 | Mel Brooks | U.S. entertainer, actor, director, and theatrical producer | |
July | 10 | Fred Gwynne | U.S. actor (died 1993) |
November | 9 | Johnny Beattie | Scottish actor |
References
- ^ The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan, Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television Archived January 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.