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Have you ever wondered, "When did Colour television become a thing?"
I know I have, we're here to tell you a thing or two about the change over from Black and White to colour television. Yes, that's right kids. Television was once... Black and White.



In a simple version colour television/broadcast can be created by broadcasting 3 monochrome images. One each in the 3 colours red, green and blue. But when they are put together or in quick order, a colour image can be created by the use of blending these colours.
 * Colour television** is part of the history of television, the technology of television and practices associated with television's transmission of moving images in colour video.

Now if you watch old movies you will notice they are in black and white whereas on the opposite side nowadays we have coloured movies and shows with 3D and the works.....

Colour is importance in television because colour helps the picture seem more realistic and helps you get in touch with the world. It also helps by using colours to portray specific emotions, themes or enlarge details.

=**Timeline of the Change from Black and White to Colour:**=

A German patent in 1904 contained the earliest recorded proposal for a colour television system.
 * 1904:**

Zworykin filed a patent disclosure for an all-electronic colour television system. Both of these systems were not successful, however, they were the first for colour television.
 * 1925:**

CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical colour television system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird.
 * 1940:**

The FCC authorised CBS's colour television technology as the national standard in October of 1950, despite the fact that the system was bulky, flickered, and was not compatible with earlier black and white sets.
 * 1950:**

CBS had begun colour broadcasting on five East Coast stations in June of 1951. However, at that time 10.5 million black and white televisions (half RCA sets) had been sold to the public and very few colour sets. Colour television production was halted during the Korean war, with that and the lawsuits, and the sluggish sales, the CBS system failed.
 * 1951:**

Previous factors provided RCA with the time to design a better colour television, which they based on the 1947 patent application of Alfred Schroeder, for a shadow mask CRT. Their system passed FCC approval in late 1953.
 * 1953:**

Mass production and sales of the RCA Colour Television began in 1954, starting the domino effect of colour television and starting their mass takeover of the television market over the next few decades.
 * 1954:**

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