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  2. Powel Crosley Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Powel Crosley Jr. (September 18, 1886 – March 28, 1961) was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur.He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting, and owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team.

  3. Qube (cable television) - Wikipedia

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    It was launched in Columbus, Ohio, on 1 December 1977. [1] Highly publicized as a revolutionary advancement, [2] the Qube experiment introduced viewers to several concepts that became central to the future development of TV technology: pay-per-view programs, special-interest cable television networks, and interactive services. [3] It went ...

  4. Charles Francis Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, best known for the annual Emmy Awards, commemorates the contributions of Jenkins to the television industry by naming one of the academy's most prestigious awards after him: the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award is a special engineering honor to an individual whose contributions over time ...

  5. This Ohio museum shows that TV is older than you might think

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    The history of television began long before millions of people gathered in front of their black-and-white sets and fiddled with the antenna and horizontal hold to watch Lucy, Uncle Miltie and ...

  6. Phonograph - Wikipedia

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    In a belt-drive turntable the motor is located off-center from the platter, either underneath it or entirely outside of it, and is connected to the platter or counter-platter by a drive belt made from elastomeric material. The direct-drive turntable was invented by Shuichi Obata, an engineer at Matsushita (now Panasonic). [61]

  7. Norton Furniture - Wikipedia

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    Norton Furniture is a Cleveland-based furniture store that is known across the Internet for its strange and unusual late night television commercials. Norton Furniture is owned and operated by Marc Brown, who inherited the business from his father in 1995. The store is located in downtown Cleveland on the corner of Payne Avenue and East 21st ...

  8. Early Television Museum - Wikipedia

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    Post WWII television sets on display. The Early Television Museum is a museum of early television receiver sets.It is located in Hilliard, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. [3]The museum has over 150 TV sets including mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 1930s; pre-World War II British sets from 1936 to 1939; pre-war American sets from 1939 to 1941; post-war American, British, French and German sets ...

  9. Popcorn: Did you know a man from Ohio invented the first ...

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