Prediction of Television: 1922

1922JulySIA hundred years ago this month, the July 1922 issue of Science and Invention made its prediction of what television would look like. The accompanying article, written by Hugo Gernsback, got most of the technical details wrong. But the artist’s conception, by illustrator Howard V. Brown (1878-1945) doesn’t look very different from the sets that started showing up in American homes a quarter century later.  If the style looks familiar, it’s because we’ve seen Brown’s artwork before.