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For the first time in history, moving pictures were transmitted through the air, in August, 1928 at the television laboratory of the Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company at East Pittsburgh. The pictures were broadcast on radio waves and picked up on a receiver in the television laboratory two miles from the transmitter.

Standing, left to right: Dr. Frank Conrad, assistant chief engineer, Westinghouse; Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith, chief broadcast engineer, RCA; Merlin H. Aylesworth, president, NBC;, Albert H. Taylor, Westinghouse, Ernst F. W. Alexanderson , chief consulting engineer, RCA; Lewis W. Chubb, manager, radio engineering, Westinghouse; David Sarnoff, VP and GM, RCA; Harry P. Davis, VP-Westinghouse, Elmer E. Bucher, VP-RCA Photophone, Inc.; Charles H. Taylor, chief communications engineer, RCA.

Sitting, left to right: Otto S. Schairer, manager, patent department, Westinghouse; F.E. Eldredge, manager, radio sales, Westinghouse; Walter Baker, manager, radio engineering, G.E.; J.L. Ray, general sales manager, RCA; Charles W. Horn, supt. of radio operations, Westinghouse and Samuel M. Kinter, manager, research department, Westinghouse.