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November 09, 2025
E12: Countdown #95: Britain, 1936
Despite the tremendous engineering strides made in the decade after its invention, by 1936 the commercial adoption of television in the United States remained...
00:12:33
November 02, 2025
E11: Countdown #96: Berlin, 1936
In addition to providing a showcase for Aryan Supremacy, Adolph Hitler's grand plan for the 1936 Berlin Olympics included demonstrating Nazi Germany's technical expertise...
00:07:37
October 26, 2025
E10: Countdown #97: Priority of Invention - 1935
In 1930 – seven years after applying for his patent – Vladimir Zworykin visited Farnsworth's laboratory in San Francisco. At the time, he was...
00:09:37
October 19, 2025
E9: Countdown #98: The Picture Gets Its Sound – 1935
Television isn't just moving pictures that fly through the air. There is sound, too. And the clear, static-free audio we take for granted owes...
00:08:41
October 12, 2025
E8: Countdown #99: The Franklin Institute - 1934
In the 1930s, video technology evolved rapidly in a world-wide race to deliver television to the marketplace. In the United States, the principal contestants...
00:07:01
October 05, 2025
E7: Countdown #100: Black Light Machine – 1928
The arrival of real (electronic) television was announced in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sept 3, 1927 - even as companies like AT&T were...
00:13:36