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I doubt if there is a factual answer. There are so many definitions for "first on the market"... Just as some might call the Saturn EV-1 the "first electric car on the market" in 199-whenever it was, but one could argue that in the early 1920s, Franklin and others produced electric cars sold to the public too. And the EV-1 was never sold; only leased, so that would default the "first electric car" to the Toyota Rav4-e, which was in fact sold and not loaned or leased to the public. But you had to be in the right place at the right time, and pay up front, and go in a lottery. So was the Rav4-e really "available to the public"? Same goes for color TV. If you had the $$$, I'm sure you could walk into some lab someplace, and buy a color set in mid '53, but if you were a householder and wanted to go into a dept. store and have a new color TV delivered that week, you probably had to wait for the CT-100 in 3/54.
Charles
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Collecting & restoring TVs in Los Angeles since age 10
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