Re: Early TV broadcasting?

hancock4@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Tony Calguire wrote:

The British experimented with broadcast television from 1933 to 1939,
using two different systems.


I've heard that the British govt supported television research early on
because it would help their radar work.


That's what they call the "Armstrong" FM band. If you really want to
learn more about it, I highly recommend the Ken Burns PBS documentary
"Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio".


Thanks for the reference. I've heard of it, but never got to see it.
Libraries carry a lot of PBS stuff.

Thanks to all for their references.

As mentioned, I was surprised how many "television" references came up
in a search of the New York Times index for the war years.

Sadly, it took an ugly world war to develop numerous technological
advances. The world of electronics and other technology drastically
changed and grew because of war research. Saran Wrap plastic film was
developed during the war to seal metal items for the overseas voyage
and protect them from corrosion, as an example. Computer programming
began during the war (IBM ASCC for Harvard).

You left out one of the biggest: space travel. After the war, the V-2 rockets pioneered by Nazi Germany during the war were analyzed by both the U.S. and Russia, and the German scientists who developed those rockets ended up working for one or the other country. That was the start of ballistic missile technology in both countries that ultimately led to Sputnik--and the Space Race.

Verner von Braun, the Nazi V-2 rocket scientist, became one of NASA's chief rocket designers.




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