In 1911, Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a

mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images" over
wires to the "Braun tube" (cathode ray tube or "CRT") in the receiver. Moving images were not
possible because, in the scanner: "the sensitivity was not enough and the selenium cell was very
laggy".[18]

In 1921, Edouard Belin sent the first image via radio waves with his belinograph.[citation needed]

Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right).

By the 1920s, when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird
employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems. On 25 March 1925, Baird gave the
first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department
Store in London.[19] Since human faces had inadequate contrast to show up on his primitive
system, he televised a ventriloquist's dummy named "Stooky Bill", whose painted face had
higher contrast, talking and moving. By 26 January 1926, he demonstrated the transmission of
the image of a face in motion by radio. This is widely regarded as the first television
demonstration. The subject was Baird's business partner Oliver Hutchinson. Baird's system used
the Nipkow disk for both scanning the image and displaying it. A bright light shining through a
spinning Nipkow disk set with lenses projected a bright spot of light which swept across the
subject. A Selenium photoelectric tube detected the light reflected from the subject and
converted it into a proportional electrical signal. This was transmitted by AM radio waves to a
receiver unit, where the video signal was applied to a neon light behind a second Nipkow disk
rotating synchronized with the first. The brightness of the neon lamp was varied in proportion to
the brightness of each spot on the image. As each hole in the disk passed by, one scan line of the
image was reproduced. Baird's disk had 30 holes, producing an image with only 30 scan lines,
just enough to recognize a human face. In 1927, Baird transmitted a signal over 438 miles
(705 km) of telephone line between London and Glasgow.[citation needed]

In 1928, Baird's company (Baird Television Development Company/Cinema Television)

broadcast the first transatlantic television signal, between London and New York, and the first
shore-to-ship transmission. In 1929, he became involved in the first experimental mechanical
television service in Germany. In November of the same year, Baird and Bernard Natan of Pathé
established France's first television company, Télévision-Baird-Natan. In 1931, he made the first
outdoor remote broadcast, of The Derby.[20] In 1932, he demonstrated ultra-short wave
television. Baird's mechanical system reached a peak of 240-lines of resolution on BBC
television broadcasts in 1936, though the mechanical system did not scan the televised scene
directly. Instead a 17.5mm film was shot, rapidly developed and then scanned while the film was
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