50th 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.
