Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

ington picked up telecast from NBC station in New York, 200 miles away. (October 17.) Portable television equipment, to supplement motor truck mobile sta- tions, demonstrated to FCC by RCA. (December 1.) 1940 —RCA demonstrated to the FCC, at Camden, N. J., a television receiver producing images in color by electronic and optical means em- ploying no moving mechanism. (February 6.) New York televised from the air for the first time by a plane equipped with RCA portable televi- sion transmitter. (March 6.) Television pictures on 4% x 6- foot screen demonstrated by RCA at annual stockholders meeting in Radio City. (May 7.) Television program broadcast from NBC station, New York, re- ceived on VSS President Roosevelt while 250 miles at sea enroute from Bermuda. (May H.) Coaxial cable used for first time in television program service by NBC in televising Republican Na- tional Convention at Philadelphia and transmitting scenes over New York station. (June 2i.) Election returns, telecast for the first time as RCA-NBC showed teletypes of press associations re- porting the news, as well as com- mentators at the microphone. (No- vember 5.) 1941 —Demonstrating television progress to the FCC, RCA exhib- ,IN-S00SE BOXING BOUT AT MADISON SQUARE ;N WAS PROJECTED ON LARGE SCREEN AT NEW YORKER THEATRE, IN 1941. ited the projection-type home tele- vision receiver featuring a screen 131/2 X 18 inches. . . . Television pic- tures including a prize fight from Madison Square Garden and a base- ball game at Ebbets Field, Brook- lyn, were projected on a 15 x 20-foot screen in the New Yorker Theatre. . . . Scenes at Camp Upton, Long Island, were automatically relayed by radio to New York establishing a record as the first remote pick-ups handled by radio relay stations. (January 24..) Color television pictures in mo- tion were put on the air by NBC in the first telecast in color by mechan- ical means from a television studio. (February 20.) RCA-NBC made successful tests with first projection-type color tele- vision receiver using mechanical methods. (May 1.) NBC's television station WNBT became the first commercially licensed transmitter to go on the air. (July 1.) 1942 —First mass education by television was initiated by RCA- NBC in training thousands of air- raid wardens in New York. (Janu- ary 23.) 1943 —NBC televised major sports and other events at Madison Square Garden for wounded servicemen in television-equipped hospitals in the New York area. (October 25.) 1944—NBC announced plans for nation-wide television network to be completed possibly by 1950. (March 1.) 1945 —RCA demonstrated projec- tion-type television home receiver featuring screen approximately 18 X 24 inches. (March 15.) RCA Image Orthicon tube of supersensitivity was introduced as solution to major problems in illu- mination of studio television pro- grams and outdoor pickups. (Octo- ber 25.) Greatly improved black-and-white television pictures and color televi- sion in three dimensions featuring live talent were demonstrated by RCA at Princeton, N. J. The color system was mechanical; the black- and-white all-electronic. (December IS.) GERTRUDE LAWRENCE IN A SCENE FROM "SUSAN AND GOD," FIRST BROADWAY PLAY TO BE TELEVISED. 1946 —Airborne television as de- veloped during the war by RCA and NBC in cooperation with U. S. Navy, U. S. Army Air Forces and the National Defense Research Council was demonstrated at Ana- costia Navy Air Station. (March 21.) First world's heavyweight cham- pionship fight to be seen on televi- sion featured Louis-Conn at Yankee Stadium, New York, televised by NBC and transmitted to Washing- ton, D. C, via coaxial cable. (June 19.) Post-war television receivers in- troduced by RCA Victor Division. (September 17.) Color television pictui'es on 15 x 20-inch screen produced by all- electronic means were demonstrated publicly for the first time by Radio Corporation of America at RCA Laboratories, Princeton, N. J. A simple radio frequency converter was announced that enables black- and-white receivers to reproduce in monochrome the programs of color television stations operating on high frequencies. The converter also enables all-electronic color re- ceivers to receive the programs of low or high frequency black-and- white transmitters. (October 30.) 1947 — RCA demonstrated simul- taneous electronic color television system at FCC Hearing held at Princeton, N. J. Film and live Continued on Page 32 [RADIO AGE 13]