Editing 1925 in television (section)

==Global television events==
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| March || 25 || [[John Logie Baird]] performed the first public demonstration of his "televisor" at the [[Selfridges]] [[department store]] on London's [[Oxford Street]]. The demonstrations of moving silhouette images continued through April. The system consisted of 30&nbsp;lines and 12.5&nbsp;pictures per second.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cooke|first1=Lez|title=British Television Drama: A History|date=2015|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|page=9}}</ref>
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| June || 13 || [[Charles Francis Jenkins]] achieves the first synchronized transmission of a moving [[silhouette]] (shadowgraphs) and sound, using 48&nbsp;lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute movie of a miniature windmill in motion was sent across 8 kilometers from [[Anacostia]] to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the [[National Bureau of Standards]], the [[United States Navy]], the [[United States Department of Commerce|Department of Commerce]], and others.  Jenkins termed this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio Shows Far Away Objects in Motion |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 14, 1925 |page=1}}</ref><ref name="glinsky">{{cite book| last = Glinsky| first = Albert| title = Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage| location = Urbana, Illinois| publisher = University of Illinois Press| year = 2000| pages = [https://archive.org/details/thereminethermus00glin/page/41 41]–45| isbn = 978-0-252-02582-2| url = https://archive.org/details/thereminethermus00glin| url-access = registration}}</ref>
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| July || 13 || [[Vladimir Zworykin]] applies for a patent for color television.<ref name="US1691324">{{cite web|last=Zworykin|first=Vladimir|date=November 13, 1928|title=Television System|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US1691324A/en|access-date=2009-07-28|work=Patent No. 1,691,324|publisher=United States Patent Office|orig-year=filed 1925}}</ref>
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|c. August–October ||  || Zworykin first demonstrates his electric camera tube and receiver for [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1886)|Westinghouse]] corporation executives, transmitting the still image of an "X". The picture is said to be dim, with low contrast and poor definition.<ref>Abramson, Albert, ''Zworykin, Pioneer of Television'', University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 51. {{ISBN|0-252-02104-5}}.</ref>
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|October || 2 || John Baird achieves the first live [[television]] image with tone graduations (not silhouette or duotone images) in his laboratory. Baird brings office boy William Taynton in front of the camera to become the first face televised. But the rate of five images per second does not show realistic movement.<ref>R. W. Burns, ''Television: An International History of the Formative Years'', p. 264.</ref>
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