A Fond Farewell to Analog Television

A Fond Farewell to Analog Television
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The first commercially successful television sets began to appear in U.S. showrooms in the early 1950s. This crowd is watching the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in a store window in Rockefeller Center in New York City.

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