1927: The BBC begins broadcasting as the British Broadcasting Corporation under the Royal Charter.1926: John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live moving images with tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution.Baird brings office boy William Taynton in front of the camera to become the first face televised. John Baird achieves the first live television image with tone graduations (not silhouette or duotone images) in his laboratory.Zworykin first demonstrates his electric camera tube and receiver for Westinghouse corporation executives, transmitting the still image of an "X".Vladimir Zworykin applies for a patent for color television.Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of a moving silhouette (shadowgraphs) and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system.1925: John Logie Baird performs the first public demonstration of his "televisor" at the Selfridges department store on London's Oxford Street.
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