This chapter discusses Baird's first experimental television broadcast in September 1929. Baird utilized his invention to transmit what was popularly called television screen news. He also invented a method of transmission using strip scanning apparatus which allowed drawings, photographs, and documents to be reproduced at a distance which was called telewriter. Also, Baird demonstrated Teletalkies, a system of televising film images.
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