50 th Anniversary of Color Television
1954-2004
by George Potter
1951- Zenith Corp. first talked of a petition to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), on the viability of color television.
1953- Zenith had a prototype color television.
1954- RCA CT-100 the first color television makes it debut.
1955- CBS comes out with a 15" color television.
1956- Zenith comes out with a model x2264RQ color television.
The Bell Labs in New York state, in 1925-27, had a color scanning disc television in their labs, but very crude. It wasn't ready for public consumption.
Books available for references on Television:
"Please Stand by", A Prehistory of Television, by Michael Ritchie, 1994, 247 pg. both in paperback and hardbound 1994.
"Tube-The Invention of Television', by David E. Fisher & Marshall Jon fisher, 1996, 247 pg.
The Golden Age of Televisions, by Philip Collins, 1997, in color 131 pg.
" John Logie Baird, Television Pioneer", History Technology series 28, by Russell Burns, 2000, 417 pg.
