1926 in television

List of years in television       (table)
… 1916 .  1917 .  1918 .  1919  . 1920  . 1921  . 1922 … 1923 1924 1925 -1926- 1927 1928 1929 … 1930 .  1931 .  1932 .  1933  . 1934  . 1935  . 1936 …        In radio: 1923 1924 1925 -1926- 1927 1928 1929                In film : 1923 1924 1925 -1926- 1927 1928 1929

The year 1926 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1926.

Global television events

Month	Day	Event
January	26	John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images in 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.
August	18	A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
December	25	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.

Births

Month	Day	Name	Occupation/Accolades
January	08	Soupy Sales	U.S. comedian and actor (d.2009)
April	22	Charlotte Rae	U.S. actress and singer
	30	Cloris Leachman	U.S. actress
May	08	Sir David Attenborough	British naturalist and documentary-maker
	08	Don Rickles	U.S. comedian and actor
June	01	Andy Griffith	U.S. actor, writer, and television producer
	28	Mel Brooks	U.S. entertainer, actor, director, and theatrical producer
July	10	Fred Gwynne	U.S. actor (d.1993)

Years in television: 1926
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