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1940

CBS Demonstrates Colour TV

1940 | August 29 – CBS research director Peter Goldmark announced the invention of Colour TV. He demonstrated a 343-line colour television system on September 3rd on W2XAB, transmitting from the Chrysler Building in New York, New York. The system used a disc of three filters (red, green and blue), rotated in front of the camera tube.


The CBS colour system


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