It was 40 years ago today...

[handy]

We spent the time glued to our old bw tv and watched as Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. It was such an exciting time. I sat on my dad's lap and the house was filled with people. Nobody went to work that day, that was for sure. I remember seeing grown men with tears in their eyes, my gruff ex-Navy dad one of them. Of course that didn't stop him from teasing one of the other guys there who was ex-Air Force about the fact that they had to strap Flyboy's into rockets to get them to do anything, but that was later. The moment itself was too awesome for jokes.

Hard to imagine that it was actually 40 years ago.

 

[John_O]

I was 3 days away from turning 11. I don't remember much about watching it live, but sure have watch a lot since! It was great and somewhat suprising, to see Armstrong out and about, He really didn't seem to like to be seen and talk about it much.

 

[Lewis]

It was 40 years ago today, Sgt Pepper told the band to play. But anyway I remember that day well, I was right across the street from where I am now, it was the summer of 1969 I think, I was in a R&B singing group at the time, hmmmmm memories.

 

[jasoncran]

well i wasn't born then but it was a proud moment of american history hopefully nasa can top that, ie mission to mars

jason

 

[JoJo]

I was in my mommy's tummy about to be born! (in August)

 

[Colton B]

Well I definitely wasn't born i am only 13. But I love the fact that it happened.

 

[Lewis]

I was born April 2nd 1955, so I must have around 14, in the summer of 69.

 

[jasoncran]

We spent the time glued to our old bw tv and watched as Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. It was such an exciting time. I sat on my dad's lap and the house was filled with people. Nobody went to work that day, that was for sure. I remember seeing grown men with tears in their eyes, my gruff ex-Navy dad one of them. Of course that didn't stop him from teasing one of the other guys there who was ex-Air Force about the fact that they had to strap Flyboy's into rockets to get them to do anything, but that was later. The moment itself was too awesome for jokes.

Hard to imagine that it was actually 40 years ago.

was that one of those black and white tv's when you shut it off the white dot stayed for a few seconds and it had to warm up and finally when you ran the vaccum cleaner or anything else the screen rolled, good lord i have seen one of those since i was a kid in the early 80's

jason

 

[Lewis]

They had color TV then because we got our first one in 68, but the moon walk was in black and white, NASA did not do it in color.

 

[jasoncran]

They had color TV then because we got our first one in 68, but the moon walk was in black and white, NASA did not do it in color.

i know that color tv was around then actually the first tv's that were invented were color, color was far more expensive then b&w, i remember buying b&w way cheaper than color tv' s in the late 80's

jason

 

[Lewis]

They had color TV then because we got our first one in 68, but the moon walk was in black and white, NASA did not do it in color.

i know that color tv was around then actually the first tv's that were invented were color, color was far more expensive then b&w, i remember buying b&w way cheaper than color tv' s in the late 80's

jason

Where did you hear that the first ones were color, if I can remember right, the Germans, invented TV in 1945 or so, and there was no color ones in sight.

 

[jasoncran]

[quote="Lewis W":25c2ndd7]They had color TV then because we got our first one in 68, but the moon walk was in black and white, NASA did not do it in color.

i know that color tv was around then actually the first tv's that were invented were color, color was far more expensive then b&w, i remember buying b&w way cheaper than color tv' s in the late 80's

jason

Where did you hear that the first ones were color, if I can remember right, the Germans, invented TV in 1945 or so, and there was no color ones in sight.[/quote:25c2ndd7]
the invention of the tv(actually it's named the televisior and it was invented by a spaniard in the early 1900's ) the concept of color tv was in the 1920's and only a few rich people had it, ever seen the color footage of ww1, if have. i will look that up to verify and post it later.

jason

 

[handy]

was that one of those black and white tv's when you shut it off the white dot stayed for a few seconds and it had to warm up and finally when you ran the vaccum cleaner or anything else the screen rolled, good lord i have seen one of those since i was a kid in the early 80's

jason[/quote]


It most certainly was! We had to turn the thing on a few minutes before any show came on, to warm it up.

The television has a murky history, but TV as we know it comes to us by a Idaho Mormon boy by the name of Philo T. Farnsworth.

(I realize we're getting away from the moon walk here.)

 

[handy]

Wow, I only thought we were getting away from the subject of the moon walk and then I read this:

In a 1996 videotaped interview by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, available on Google video,[14] Elma Farnsworth recounts Philo's change of heart about the value of television, after seeing how it showed man walking on the moon, in real time, to millions of viewers:

Interviewer: The image dissector was used to send shots back from the moon to earth.
Elma Farnsworth: Right.
Interviewer: What did Phil think of that?
Elma Farnsworth: We were watching it, and, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Phil turned to me and said, "Pem, this has made it all worthwhile." Before then, he wasn't too sure.

wikipedia

 

[Vince]

I watched it live and have never forgotten it. When he planted the American flag on the moon, my aunt started crying.

 

[Lewis]

Color Television History Return to Television

The Development of Color Television
A German patent in 1904 contained the earliest recorded proposal for a color television system. In 1925, Zworykin filed a patent disclosure for an all-electronic colour television system. Both of these systems were not successful, however, they were the first for color television. A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC on December 17, 1953 based on a system designed by RCA.

"Between 1946 and 1950 the research staff of RCA Laboratories invented the world's first electronic, monochrome compatible, color television system." - From IEEE Milestone Plaque.

In 1940, prior to RCA, CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical color television system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird. The FCC authorized CBS's color television technology as the national standard in October of 1950, despite the fact that the system was bulky, flickered, and was not compatible with earlier black and white sets. RCA sued to stop the public broadcasting of CBS based systems. CBS had begun color broadcasting on five East Coast stations in June of 1951. However, at that time 10.5 million black and white televisions (half RCA sets) had been sold to the public and very few color sets. Color television production was halted during the Korean war, with that and the lawsuits, and the sluggish sales, the CBS system failed.

Those factors provided RCA with the time to design a better color television, which they based on the 1947 patent application of Alfred Schroeder, for a shadow mask CRT. Their system passed FCC approval in late 1953 and sales of RCA color televisions began in 1954.

INVENTION OF COLOR TELEVISION - PART 1
By 1949, monochrome television had become a commercial success, 10 million sets had been sold, and programs were available to the general public. A change to color television would only be licensed if the color broadcast signal could also be received as a monochrome signal on these sets.

INVENTION OF COLOR TELEVISION - PART 2
The introduction of color televisioning using the CBS Field Sequential Color System had been a commercial failure in 1951, and the intervention of the Korean War, and prohibition on production of color television sets, let CBS gracefully withdraw.

History of Early Color Television
Color Television System Development - Colorcasting Development - Color Television Receiver Development

Monochrome-Compatible, Electronic Color Television, 1946-1953
In 1946, then, RCA committed to developing an all-electronic system designed to the same reception standards enjoyed on monochrome sets.

The Story of Color Television
The premier of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color in September, 1961, was a turning point, persuading consumers to go out and purchase color televisions.http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevision.htm

 

[Lewis]

Here you go Jason, let me tell you this, those color TV's of the 60's looked like garbage, like water color or something.

Color Television History Return to Television

The Development of Color Television
A German patent in 1904 contained the earliest recorded proposal for a color television system. In 1925, Zworykin filed a patent disclosure for an all-electronic colour television system. Both of these systems were not successful, however, they were the first for color television. A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC on December 17, 1953 based on a system designed by RCA.

"Between 1946 and 1950 the research staff of RCA Laboratories invented the world's first electronic, monochrome compatible, color television system." - From IEEE Milestone Plaque.

In 1940, prior to RCA, CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical color television system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird. The FCC authorized CBS's color television technology as the national standard in October of 1950, despite the fact that the system was bulky, flickered, and was not compatible with earlier black and white sets. RCA sued to stop the public broadcasting of CBS based systems. CBS had begun color broadcasting on five East Coast stations in June of 1951. However, at that time 10.5 million black and white televisions (half RCA sets) had been sold to the public and very few color sets. Color television production was halted during the Korean war, with that and the lawsuits, and the sluggish sales, the CBS system failed.

Those factors provided RCA with the time to design a better color television, which they based on the 1947 patent application of Alfred Schroeder, for a shadow mask CRT. Their system passed FCC approval in late 1953 and sales of RCA color televisions began in 1954.

INVENTION OF COLOR TELEVISION - PART 1
By 1949, monochrome television had become a commercial success, 10 million sets had been sold, and programs were available to the general public. A change to color television would only be licensed if the color broadcast signal could also be received as a monochrome signal on these sets.

INVENTION OF COLOR TELEVISION - PART 2
The introduction of color televisioning using the CBS Field Sequential Color System had been a commercial failure in 1951, and the intervention of the Korean War, and prohibition on production of color television sets, let CBS gracefully withdraw.

History of Early Color Television
Color Television System Development - Colorcasting Development - Color Television Receiver Development

Monochrome-Compatible, Electronic Color Television, 1946-1953
In 1946, then, RCA committed to developing an all-electronic system designed to the same reception standards enjoyed on monochrome sets.

The Story of Color Television
The premier of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color in September, 1961, was a turning point, persuading consumers to go out and purchase color televisions.http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevision.htm[/color]

 

[Vince]

My friend Lewis writes: ... let me tell you this, those color TV's of the 60's looked like garbage, like water color or something.

Our first color TV was a nightmare, and we sometimes spent 1/3 of the show fighting with the knobs in an attempt to get decent color. I decided that I liked black and white better, because it give a better picture back then.

 

[jasoncran]

i know i had one of those, try playing nintendo with one them, not gonna work the reciever couldnt handle that.

BTW lewis w i know you remember the vacuum tubes, I do

jason

 

[Lewis]

Yes the playing with them color knobs was constant, we had a 1967 or 68 Phillico Ford color TV, yeah Ford motor company. And you could never get the color with them knobs right. My aunt had one in 63 or 64, and it was even worse. And how about the those sheets of transparent plastic with color in them, that you could buy and tape to the front of your TV screen, even at my very young age, I thought they were stupid. And yes Jason, remember the vac tube TV's very well, my dad would change his own, when they went bad, he use to have a lot of spare ones laying around.