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Was there TV before Cable?
Of course! And you can thank Marvin Middlemark for the invention of the “rabbit ears” or the “V” TV antennae. Of course, most Millennials...
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Do You Know about The First Commercial Videotape Recorder?
Research on recording video on tape was begun in the early 1950's, and Bing Crosby Enterprises demonstrated a prototype system in 1951...
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Wired to Wireless
Channel surfing was born more than six decades ago. The first TV remote control, called the “Lazy Bones,” was developed in 1950 by Zenith...
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The first Pixel Image
Inspired by the telegraph and photography, many 19th century inventors sought ways to capture, transmit, and view images by electricity....