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Entry began slowly but
advanced rapidly after 1900.
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From 1894 to 1918 60 firms
entered,. Peaked at 75 firms in 1923. In the next two years nearly 1/3rd of
the industry 23 firms left.
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Depression saw another 20 go
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1923 Dodge introduced the
all steel closed-body automobile
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By 1925 half of all US
production was all steel closed body.
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By 1926 80% were
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In the U.S., broadcasters
and receiver manufacturers have agreed on a
standard of 525 horizontal lines per
frame MORE FRAMES/SEC LESS FLICKER
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In order to work TV
receivers require a source of field timing reference signals. These are
signals that tell the TV receiver to be ready to receive the next picture in
the stream of images. Early set designers decided to use the Mains power
supply frequency as this source for two good reasons.
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1 Older types of power
supply, you would get rolling hum bars on the TV picture if the mains supply
and power source were not at exactly the same frequency.
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2. TV studios would have had enormous problems
with flicker on their cameras when making programmes. A frequency of 30
frames per sec. ( From the mains frequency)
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Pixels per line is limited
by the frequency channels allocated to television to about 330 elements per
line.
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The result is an image that
consists of about 173,000 individual elements for the entire frame
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In addition to standard
combinations of Scan Rate, Colour System and transmission frequencies, there
are further complications when it comes to additional features like Stereo
Sound, Sub-titling and information services. Fortunately, such differences do
not effect the basic operation of equipment conforming to the same broadcast
standard, but they can restrict the use of various features.
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