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Television is a system of transmitting video and accompanying sound over radio waves.
The first practical television set was patented <ref> US Patent No.1,544,156 </ref> by [[Charles Francis Jenkins]] in the United States. He built on the experimental work of earlier scientists such as [[John Logie Baird]].
The first television broadcasting station in the US was W3XK, founded by his Jenkins Television Corporation in 1928.
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