Cook Islands – 80 Years of Television – $1 – 2006 – Latent Image – Brilliant Uncirculated Coin replicates the first images transmitted to a television receiver in 1926. John Logie Baird demonstrates the world’s first television system to transmit live, moving images in tone graduations to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.