(TELEVISION) Group of 11 photographs relating to the incepti

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THE DREAM OF SCIENTISTS (TELEVISION)
Group of 11 photographs relating to the inception of television, comprising men completing the first successful tests. Silver prints, 71/4x9 to 91/4x71/2 (18.4x22.9 to23.5x19 cm.), 10 with a hand stamp on verso and 10 with a typed text caption adhered to verso. 1927

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On April 7, 1927 the president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, Walter S. Gifford, gave the first public demonstration of television. A group of reporters and dignitaries were invited to the AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories to witness Gifford talking live to a broadcast image of Secretary of Energy Herbert Hoover.