he Federal Radio Commission through passage of the Radio Act of 1927. In 1928, the FRC established classes of stations by geographic zone. It was too little too late. General Electric was operating what one might describe as an experimental TV station, WGY, The History and Technology of Analog Video based in Schenectady, New York. It broadcast the first TV drama that year. However, the Act neither addressed television broadcast, nor asserted jurisdiction over telegraph and telephone carriers. Image to be scanned Holes on spiral Nipkow disk Scan lines (From 1 to 16) Enlarged scanned image Figure 5-4. Field Sequential System (Michel Bayard). In 1929, Vladimir Zworykin and David Sarnoff, both born in Russia, met for the first time. Zworykin was interested in joining RCA to pursue television technology. However, as a condition of employment, he required Sarnoff to renounce electro- mechanical television and commit to electronic methods, even though they still faced many unsolved problems. Sarnoff asked Zworykin to estimate RCA's cost to prepare electronic TV for commercial use. Zworykin placed it at $100,000, and Sarnoff consented. Over a twelve-year period, RCA's development of television exceeded Zworykin's estimate and cost nearly $50 million. Nevertheless, Zworykin prospered at RCA and basked in the luxury of a large research budget and supportive executives. In that fertile environment, he perfected his science. There was only one real problem. In Provo, Utah, a youth named Philo T. Farnsworth was far ahead of everybody. He was busy filing important patents. Farnsworth, unlike Zworykin, did not have a sponsor with deep pockets. Self-taught but brilliant, he received sporadic funding from small investors. In 1928, he demonstrated the world's first all-electronic television system. He based it on a camera that Farnsworth called an "image dissector." By 1939, he had coupled the camera with a sophisticated picture tube to intensify the dissected image. The system was far more sensitive than was anything RCA could co