Transatlantic TV
The Eye of the World
Today in 1928, John Logie Baird transmitted television pictures across the Atlantic, using a short-wave radio.
“The images were crude, imperfect, broken, but they were images none the less. Man's vision had panned the ocean; transatlantic television was a demonstrated reality, and one more great dream of science was on the way to realization.
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