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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

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To complicate matters, the actual first demonstration of his televisor wasn’t on 26 January 1926 in front of those esteemed members of the Royal Institution; rather, it occurred in March 1925 in front of curious shoppers at a Selfridges department store. But eventually the BBC switched to the all-electronic system developed by Marconi-EMI.

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