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Television wasn't invented until 1925 when British inventor John Logie Baird sent the first very primitive television picture (of a vetriloquist's dummy!). It was on 2nd October 1925. He used work by Paul Nipkow to improve a scanning disc made by him to achieve the first TV signal. After many improvements, he set up the first TV company in 1928 where a signal was sent from London to New York. The picture was grainy, black and white, and movement was stunted and poor. But it was a TV picture.

The British BBC then made TV programmes in the 1930s but the second world war prevented them from improving on their primitive system It wasn't until after the war in the early 1950s that TV took off again - especially at the coronation of the queen, when the public bought TV sets for the first time to watch this event. By then TV had spread to the richest countries of the world, including the USA and Canada.

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