When the first home television set was demonstrated in 1928, what was the size (width and height) of the screen?

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6 inches by 6 inches 1928: W3XK, the first American TV station, begins broadcasting from suburban Washington, D.C. ============================================ The station was an outgrowth of the work done by Charles Francis Jenkins in devising a way to transmit pictures over the airwaves, a process he called "radiovision." He sold several thousand receiving sets, mostly to hobbyists, and, after receiving permission to start an experimental TV transmitting station, aired programming five nights a week until shutting down in 1932. Jenkins essentially brought the wrong technology to the field: His receiving sets relied on a 48-line image projected onto a 6-inch-square mirror to create the picture, rather than using electronics, the technology that determined the future of television. An interesting aside: Jenkins was also the first to air a television commercial. He was fined by the government for doing so, a practice that was discontinued, unfortunately, as the medium matured. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/07/dayintech_0702 There are pictures and newspaper articles here: http://www.tvhistory.tv/pre-1935.htm May 13 10, 9:58 PM