1923

First Silhouette Television Images

1923 | June 14 – Charles Francis Jenkins demonstrated the first experimental wireless television transmissions with a mechanical system (48 lines on 1875 kHz).

He managed to transmit silhouettes from the Navy radio station in Anacostia to his Jenkins Laboratories office in Washington Dc. Jenkins named this first laboratory demonstration of television “Radio Vision”, defined as the instantaneous reproduction on a small screen of a picture.

This he differentiated from “Radio Movies”, which he defined as the transmission of pictures from a theatre film to a small screen at home.