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John Logie Baird Makes the First Mechanical Color Broadcast

2/4/1938
"This live image of Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Baird's first all-electronic colour television system, [circa 1940] which used two projection CRTs. The two-colour image would be si
"This live image of Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Baird's first all-electronic colour television system [circa 1940] which used two projection CRTs. The two-colour image would be similar to the basic telechrome system."

On February 4, 1938 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird made the world's first color broadcast, sending a mechanically scanned 120-line image from Baird's Crystal Palace studios to a projection screen at London's Dominion Theatre.

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