75th Anniversary of Television

SpiceWare writes "In the summer of '21, Philo T. Farnsworth was struck by an inspiration after plowing a field. He transmitted the first television image six years later on September 7, 1927."

Comments

Well Happy Birthday!...

[Cyno01]

you wonderful box whos warming glowing warming glow i bask in almost as much as this crt in front of me right now

Tv is young!

[dcstimm]

2 years younger than my dad.

Yanks and Yuropeans

[cruachan]

Most of the threads on this topic consist of Europeans posting that the TV was really invented by Logie Baird, and Americans insulting the Europeans.

It seems like one year on the Americans have learnt precisely nothing about why they are regarded with dislike to outright hatred by the rest of the world.

This mixture of arrogance and bullying behaviour displayed towards any group who even dares suggest that Americans are not the fount of all wisdom and invention parallels exactly it's behaviour on a global scale to any country which does not agree with it's geopolitical views.

It's that sort of behaviour which has almost completely drained the great well of sympathy we all felt for your country after 9/11.

Your nation seriously needs to take a mirror to itself before it really gets into trouble by stomping over the rest of the globe.

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"if in a sizable population there are one hundred rebels, all of whom are then rounded up and killed, the number of rebels present at the end of the day is not zero, and not even one hundred, but two hundred or three hundred or more; an equation based on human nature which seems often to baffle the military and political mind. " - Ian M Banks

"I am willing to love all mankind, except an American." (Samuel Johnson. In Boswell's Life, 15 April 1778)

Re:Yanks and Yuropeans

[DoomPlague]

What you fail to notice is that its mainly being done by 1 American. Not the whole country. And the European representatives here arent exactly "diplomatic."

Believe it or not, Americans do not spend their time thinking about how they are better than everyone else and putting down people in other nations. If anything, Americans tend to view things only within their own borders until the time comes to expand. I wouldn't call this a good trait, though, but personally I've found that Europeans are more aggressive towards Americans than vice-versa. It seems that Europeans are always the first to bash the US. Maybe that's only the sense I get from websites like this but polls dont seem to indicate too much dislike for Europeans within the US.

Television and the radio spectrum

[minesweeper]

As my EE professor told the class earlier this semester, it's a shame that broadcast television eats up such large chunks of frequency in the radio spectrum, a total range of over 400 MHz. Since almost all televisions are tethered anyway (by their power cords), the television signal should just be delivered over land wires. Frequencies in the radio spectrum, a finite resource, should be allocated to truly wireless devices, he believes. Of course, that means that everyone would have to pay for basic cable just to watch the Simpsons.

Just an interesting thought about the legacy of broadcast television...

Re:Nothing matches dresden or hiroshima

[Alan Partridge]

don't pull that Dresden shit on us. The London Blitz was all the excuse you'd ever need for Dresden. If you add in Southampton, Coventry and Plymouth then I think they got off lightly by being allowed to live at all after trying to enslave the whole fucking continent. And if you think we British are still pissed off at the Nazis, try a Russian or a Pole for size.