The EMI Contribution to the Development of Practical Television - 'The Dream Team'

One of the first projects of EMI's research laboratories was the development of an all-electronic television system. To do this, EMI assembled one of the finest groups of engineers and scientists in an industrial company the world has ever seen: people such as Shoenberg, Blumlein, Condliffe, McGee, Lubszynski and White. Their work caused Lord Rutherford to say ‘they are carrying out almost pure laboratory physics and then applying it directly to industrial work.' When they started their television work at EMI, the state of the television art was mechanical scanning at 30 lines and a bandwidth of 5 kHz; when they finished, it was 405 lines and 3 MHz.