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Television pioneer Charles Francis Jenkins inspecting his broadcasting apparatus in 1928. Everett Collection HIstorical

The transatlantic race to create the television

Charles Francis Jenkins and John Logie Baird both wowed public audiences with their new image-transmitting devices in 1925.
How will we preserve technologies so deeply embedded in daily life? BrAt_PiKaChU/Istock via Getty Images

Saving broadcasting’s past for the future – archivists are working to capture not just tapes of TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together

Scholars, preservationists, archivists, museum educators and curators, fans and the public are meeting in late April in the nation’s capital to figure out how to preserve broadcasting’s history.

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