German phrases: How to Speak Oktoberfest. Some of the German phrases with translations that youâll hear at the Alpine Village Oktoberfest. If youâve visited Alpine Village in Torrance for our amazing Oktoberfest celebration, youâve probably picked up on some of the German words and phrases that we use here.
The FCC approved RCA color televisions toward the end of 1953, marking the start of major color TV sales in the United States. Sales of color televisions slowly overtook those of black-and-white sets. By the mid-1970s, more color televisions were being purchased than black-and-white TVs. By the 1980s, black-and-white television sales began to dry up for good.
The first color television was demonstrated in 1928 by John Logie Baird. This Scottish inventor demonstrated the world's first operating monochrome television, called a Televi â¦ sor in March of 1925. The color version used three signals to carry and repreduce red, green and blue lighting to build a full color image.e then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York. An all-electronic moving-image television system somewhat similar to that used today was invented and demonstrated in 1929 by Philo Farnsworth.