The Inventor of Stereo

Chapter 4

Television

Even before Alan Blumlein had completed his work on the Columbia recorder, EMI had turned their attention to the then very new science of television. It was, therefore, inevitable that at some stage Blumlein’s services, and those of his colleagues in the research department at Hayes, should be directed towards the ‘new science’ and that of producing an EMI television system.

By 1932, regular experimental television programmes were being broadcast (albeit only half an hour a day), to the very few people who owned a receiver, from the London television transmitter of the BBC at Broadcasting House. These had originated from a demonstration given in April 1925, by John Logie Baird, of a mechanical transmission apparatus, which ...