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February 09, 1928

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 9, 1928

* 1st television image sent across Atlantic Ocean
* John Logie Baird - Hartsdale NY New York
* Charles Lindbergh airplane flight to Cuba

Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading announcing: "Persons in Britain Seen Here by Television As They Pose Before Baird's Electric 'Eye'" First report coverage on the very 1st transatlantic TV image sent. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 52 pages, light toning, irregular along the spine, otherwise nice.

wikipedia notes: On February 9th, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American "Couch Potato" when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (1888-1946) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter (call sign 2KZ) in Coulsdon, Surrey (a suburb of London, England) to his colleague O.G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an Amateur Radio Operator (call sign 2CVJ) in Hartsdale, New York.

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