Abstract
THE WAR certainly applied the brakes to earlier television progress. Earlier, or simultaneously with the opening of the New York World's Fair in I939, practical telecasting had been inaugurated in the metropolitan area as thousands of telesets were manufactured and installed in taverns and hotels, clubs and theatre lobbies, and scattered homes. For two years, or until Pearl Harbor, telecasting was well under way as a convincing demonstration of this new form of home entertainment. Then came the heavy restrictions of war, with its shortages of materiel and personnel. By early I942 it seemed as though television was doomed to another of those many setbacks that have marked its undulating progress from the pioneer days of mechanical scanning and simple silhouette images, to latter-day electronic scanning and remarkably detailed images that can be packed with real entertainment values.
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