<Li> 1929: In September, the Baird Television Development Company begins experimental broadcasting in association with the BBC . Regular experimental broadcasting started in Germany by the TV Station Paul Nipkow . </Li> <Ul> <Li> 1930: Baird installs a television at 10 Downing Street, London, the British Prime Minister's residence . On July 14, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his family use it to watch the first ever television drama, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth . </Li> <Li> 1931: Allen B. DuMont perfects long - lasting reliable cathode ray tubes later used for television reception . TV reaches the Soviet Union and France . </Li> <Li> 1932: The BBC starts a regular public television broadcasting service in the UK . </Li> <Li> 1933: The first television revue, Looking In, is broadcast on the BBC . The musical revue featured the Paramount Astoria dancing girls . Broadcast live by the BBC using John Logie Baird's 30 - line mechanical television system, part of this performance was recorded onto a 7" aluminum disc using a primitive home recording process called Silvatone . This footage, which runs to just under four minutes, is the oldest surviving recording of broadcast television . </Li> <Li> 1934: Philo Farnsworth demonstrates a non-mechanical television system . The agreement for joint experimental transmissions by the BBC and John Logie Baird's company comes to an end . First 30 Line Mechanical Television Test Transmissions commence in April in Brisbane Australia conducted by Thomas Elliott and Dr Val McDowall . </Li> <Li> 1935: First regular scheduled TV broadcasts in Germany by the TV Station Paul Nipkow . The final transmissions of John Logie Baird's 30 - line television system are broadcast by the BBC . First TV broadcasts in France on February 13 on Paris PTT Vision . </Li> <Li> 1936: The 1936 Summer Olympics becomes the first Olympic Games to be broadcast on television . </Li> <Li> 1937: The BBC Television Service broadcasts the world's first televised Shakespeare play, a thirty - minute version of Twelfth Night, and the first football match, Arsenal F.C. vs. Arsenal reserves . </Li> <Li> 1938: DuMont Laboratories manufactures and sells the first all - electronic television sets to the public . Baird gives the first public demonstration of color projection television . The BBC broadcasts the world's first ever television science fiction (R.U.R.), and television crime series (Telecrime); in one of the lengthiest experimental television broadcasts, the BBC broadcasts a 90 - minute version of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Leslie Banks, Constance Cummings, and James Mason . </Li> <Li> 1939: The BBC suspends its television service owing to the outbreak of the Second World War . The 1939 New York World's Fair was broadcast . Japan is the first Asian country to air television . </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1930: Baird installs a television at 10 Downing Street, London, the British Prime Minister's residence . On July 14, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his family use it to watch the first ever television drama, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth . </Li> <Li> 1931: Allen B. DuMont perfects long - lasting reliable cathode ray tubes later used for television reception . TV reaches the Soviet Union and France . </Li>

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