Fwd: Re: early instances of the word "television"

[Dennis During]

Google News generates hits on reports in US newspapers of French and German
inventors reporting progress on "television" in 1910. They were talking
about "videophones", not broadcast TV. In any event the word was around. The
long lead time between making an announcment and actually broadcasting may
mean that the idea that TV broadcasting would come was in circulation by the
early 20s.
[BTW, there were numerous spurious hits on Google News from before 1910, not
to say there aren't some real ones in there somewhere.]

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Dennis C. During
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