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TV Turns 90 (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the milestones dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A live webcast today will celebrate the transmission of the first electronic TV signal on Sept. 7, 1927, and the man behind it, Philo T. Farnsworth, per AP: The webcast is set for 6 p.m. ET from the original location of Farnsworth's San Francisco lab. It'll be repeated at 9 p.m. and midnight. Veteran producer Phil Savenick created the site to detail the medium's history and the contributions of Farnsworth and other TV pioneers.

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  1. fake news, Philo tried in 1930s to be recognized by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Informative

    John Logie Baird in 1926 sent television images by radio.

    If sending by wire instead of free space is acceptable as criteria, television was invented in the mid 19th century.

  2. An excellent book on the topic... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Informative
    ... Tube: The Invention of Television, by David E. Fisher, Marshall Jon Fisher

    imo, well worth a read. I bought the book when it first came out, and have reread it a couple of times.

  3. Re:actually... by dtmos · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure Philo T. Farnsworth wasn't the guy who invented TV, though.

    Nobody claims that he did. However, he did invent electrically scanned TV, which was a big advance over the Nipkow disk and other mechanically scanned TV schemes that came before him -- including those of John Logie Baird.