tv

Growth of Television

Year	TV Sets in Use	# Lines in Picture
1928 & Earlier	Few Experimental	30 Lines
1929	Few Experimental	60 Lines
1931	Few Experimental	120 Lines
1933	Few Experimental	240 Lines
1934	50-100	343 Lines
1939	Less than 1,000	441 Lines
1941	1,000	525 Lines
1946	6,000	525 Lines
1947	142,000	525 Lines
1948	977,000	525 Lines
1949	3,660,000	525 Lines
1950	9,732,000	525 Lines
1951	15,637,000	525 Lines
1952	21,782,000	525 Lines
1953	25,233,000	525 Lines

Interesting facts:
• A pre World War II (1941) Television Set is rarer than a Stradivarius Violin!
• The number of televisions sold in the US for the month of September 2001 was 2.3 million!