Television's First Broadcast Image - San Francisco, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 48.022 W 122° 24.164
10S E 552580 N 4183834
Site of the television's first broadcast image.
Waymark Code: WM7W73
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/11/2009
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The plaque reads: "In a simple laboratory on this site, 202 Green Street, Philo Taylor Farnsworth, U.S. pioneer in electronics, invented and patented the first operational all-electronic "television system" on September 7, 1927. The 21-year-old inventor and several dedicated assistants successfully transmitted the first all-electronic television image, the major breakthrough that brought the practical form of this invention to mankind. Further patents formulated here covered the basic concepts essential to modern television. The Genius of Green Street, as he was known, died in 1971."
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