File:Ernst Ruhmer demonstrating simple television system (1909).jpg

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English: Photograph of Ernst Ruhmer demonstrating his experimental television system, which was capable of transmitting the images of simple shapes using a 25-element selenium cell receiver. The original caption read "Ruhmer's new apparatus for transmitting light by selenium cells."
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Source Illustration included in "Another Electric Distance-Seer", Literary Digest, September 11, 1909, page 384.
Author Magazine article

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11 September 1909Gregorian

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