Talk:Elmer William Engstrom

A fact from Elmer William Engstrom appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 September 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that American engineer Elmer William Engstrom was involved in the development of television by RCA in the 1930s?

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Its first complete test took place in 1939, with a transmitter installed on the eighty-fifth floor of the Empire State Building. A mechanical scanner provided a 120-line, 24-frame picture from live and film subjects,

It this correct? The BBC already had a 405-line TV system in operation in 1936, which would put Engstrom's system very behind the times.Algr