1939 in American television

none 1939 This is a list of American television-related events in 1939. Events April 30 - Opening day of the 1939 New York World's Fair. David Sarnoff, then president of RCA and a strong advocate of television, chose to introduce television to the mass public at the RCA pavilion of the Fair. As a reflection of the wide range of technological innovation on parade at the fair, Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech was both broadcast over the various radio networks and televised, along with other parts of the opening ceremony and other events at the fair. That day, the opening ceremony and Roosevelt's speech were seen on black and white television sets with 5 to 12-inch tubes.Barnouw, E. (1990). Tube of plenty: The evolution of American television (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press The exhibits of the 1939 New York World's Fair included early television sets.Herman, Arthur. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, pp. 58–65, Random House, New York, 2012. 978-1-4000-6964-4. May 1 - Four models of RCA television sets went on sale to the general public in various department stores around New York City. The sets were promoted in a series of splashy newspaper ads.1939 RCA TV sets http://www.tvhistory.tv/1939-RCA-Brochure-1.JPG TVHistory.tv 2022-03-26 2022-03-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20220311013559/http://www.tvhistory.tv/1939-RCA-Brochure-1.JPG live May – A U.S. patent is granted for Kálmán Tihanyi's transmitting tube. The patent for his receiving tube had already been granted in October 1938. Both patents had been purchased by the American electronics company RCA prior to their approval.https://patents.google.com/patent/US2133123 Patent US2133123 - Television apparatus December 11, 2015https://patents.google.com/patent/US2158259 Patent US2158259 - Television apparatus December 11, 2015 Tihanyi's version of an electronic television consisted of a camera tube that accumulated and stored electrical charges ("photoelectrons") within the tube throughout each scanning cycle. Tihanyi's charge storage idea remains a basic principle in the design of imaging devices for television to the present day."Kálmán Tihanyi's 1926 Patent Application 'Radioskop'" https://web.archive.org/web/20121025055406/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-4/kalman-tihanyis-1926-patent-application-radioskop/ October 25, 2012 , Memory of the World, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2005, retrieved 2009-01-29. September - RCA had previously filed a patent interference suit against Philo Farnsworth. In September 1939, after losing an appeal in the courts and still determined to go forward with the commercial manufacturing of television equipment, RCA agreed to pay Farnsworth US$1 million over a ten-year period, in addition to license payments, to use Farnsworth's television-related patents.Stashower, Daniel, The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television, Broadway Books, 2002, p. 243–244. 978-0-7679-0759-0.Everson 1949 With this historic agreement in place, RCA integrated much of what was best about the Farnsworth technology into their systems.Abramson 1987 254 November 8 – The CBS television station W2XAB resumes test transmission with an all-electronic system broadcast from the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City.Early Television Stations – W2XAB/W2XAX/WCBW – CBS, New York http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xab.html Early Television Museum Hilliard, Ohio 2014-11-26 Exact date unknown - In 1939, the Hungarian engineer Peter Carl Goldmark introduced an electro-mechanical television system while working at CBS, which contained an Iconoscope sensor. The CBS field-sequential color system was partly mechanical, with a disc made of red, blue, and green filters spinning inside the television camera at 1,200 rpm, and a similar disc spinning in synchronization in front of the cathode ray tube inside the receiver set.Peter C. Goldmark, assignor to Columbia Broadcasting System, "Color Television", U.S. Patent 2,480,571, filed Sept. 7, 1940. The innovation in the field of color television would not be publicized until September 1940.Current Broadcasting 1940"Color Television Success in Test", The New York Times, August 30, 1940, p. 21."Color Television Achieves Realism", The New York Times, Sept. 5, 1940, p. 18."New Television System Transmits Images in Full Color", Popular Science, December 1940, p. 120. Births 1939 in television#Births Deaths 1939 in television#Deaths References Sources Abramson Albert The History of Television, 1880 to 1941 1987 Jefferson, NC McFarland & Co. 0-89950-284-9 Everson George 1949 The Story of Television, The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth New York W. W. Norton & Co. 978-0-405-06042-7 External links List of 1939 American television series at IMDb 1939 *