Telstar I enables the first television transmitted by orbiting satellite

Category
Telecom
Place
Global
Date
1962
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"One of the first to carry the idea forward in the 1950s was a US engineer working for Bell Telephones, John R. Pierce, who played a leading part in the work that led to the launch of the Echo communications satellite in 1960 and Telstar 1 in 1962." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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PeriodMiner
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Category
Communications
1753
2020
One Earth
Inventions
-3800
2020
Transcultural