. Bell telephone magazine . isionTransmission Over Communications Lines April 7, 1927-The first public demonstration inthe United States of the transmission of televisionover telephone facilities took place at Bell Tele-phone Laboratories, New York City, between WalterS. Gifford. president of American Telephone andTelegraph Company, and Secretary of CommerceHerbert Hoover in Washington, At that timeMr. Giffords remarks included the following: Theprinciples underlying television, which are relatedto the principles involved in electrical transmissionof speech, have been known for a long tim
. Bell telephone magazine . isionTransmission Over Communications Lines April 7, 1927-The first public demonstration inthe United States of the transmission of televisionover telephone facilities took place at Bell Tele-phone Laboratories, New York City, between WalterS. Gifford. president of American Telephone andTelegraph Company, and Secretary of CommerceHerbert Hoover in Washington, At that timeMr. Giffords remarks included the following: Theprinciples underlying television, which are relatedto the principles involved in electrical transmissionof speech, have been known for a long time but to-day we shall demonstrate its successful achieve-ment. The elaborateness of the equipment requiredby the very nature of the undertaking precludesany present possibility of television being availablein homes and offices generally. What its practicaluse may be I shall leave to your imagination. I amconfident, however, that in many ways and in duetime it will be found to add substantially to humancomfort and 1927. First public demonstration of T\over telephone facilities took place. directly a part of telephone communication, isclosely allied to it. Later, Mr. Gifford added, As it is now, it is a giantmechanism which takes up nearly half a course, it will be a long time before the ordinarytelephones will be provided with devices for tele-vision. A great deal of work must be done on themto make it practicable to use them in our we will some day, I have no doubt. It is our constant aim to furnish this country withthe most complete telephone service possible. Inconnection with that aim, we endeavor to developall forms of communication that might be supple-mental to the telephone. With that in view, we shallcontinue our work on television, which although not 1929-1931-A similar system, the first two-waytelevision transmission system, was set up andoperated between the American Telephone andTelegraph Company headquarters at 195 Broadwayand Bell
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