1925 in American television

This is a list of American television-related events in 1925.

Events

June 13 â The American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins publicly demonstrated the synchronized transmission of silhouette pictures. In 1925, Jenkins used a Nipkow disk and transmitted the silhouette image of a toy windmill in motion, over a distance of 5 mi (8.0 km) (from a naval radio station in Maryland to his laboratory in Washington, D.C.), using a lensed disk scanner with a 48-line resolution.^[1]^[2]
June 30 - The American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins was granted U.S. patent 1,544,156 (Transmitting Pictures over Wireless). He had filed for this patent on March 13, 1922.^[3]
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- The American inventor Vladimir Zworykin had worked on the development of an electronic camera tube since 1923, while working for Westinghouse Electric. In a 1925 demonstration of Zworykin's device, the image was dim, it had low contrast and poor definition, and it was stationary.^[4]
- In 1923, Vladimir Zworykin had applied for a television patent in the United States. He summarized the resulting invention in two patent applications. The first, entitled "Television Systems", was filed on December 29, 1923. It was followed by a second application in 1925 of essentially the same content, but with minor changes and the addition of a Paget-type RGB raster screen for color transmission and reception.He was awarded a patent for the 1925 application in 1928. ^[5]