EMI's Contribution to the Development of Television 1931 to 1978 

To create a practical television system EMI assembled one of the finest groups of engineers and scientists in an industrial company the world has ever seen. When they started their television work the state of the television art was mechanical scanning at 30 lines and a bandwidth of 5KHz; when they finished it was 405 lines and 3 MHz. How this was achieved and how EMI progressed the development of television, through tele-recording, 1001 line systems, transmitters, aerials and colour until they withdrew from television equipment design in 1978 was told. The presentation consisted of photographs and film, much of which has never been seen before.

Please note: this event was preceded by a short AGM.

Speakers

Norman Green