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Georgia, Russia-born scientist Boris Rtcheouloff files a patent application for a "Means of recording and reproducing pictures, images and the like" - the first means for magnetic recording of a television signal onto a moving strip. British patent no. 288,680 will be granted in 1928, but this forerunner of videotape will never be manufactured.
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