The year 1926 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of
television-related events during 1926.
Global television events
Month
Day
Event
January
26
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. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.
Japanese researcher
Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a
cathode-ray tube in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.[1]