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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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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.
imo, well worth a read. I bought the book when it first came out, and have reread it a couple of times.
He was the first person to successfully transmit a moving image over radio waves, which is what most people would consider to be what television is. I seem to recall that JLB coined the term television too,
However American's don't like to think any bit of modern technology was not invented by themselves so because Farnsworth system was the one initially widely used they like to think that Farnsworth invented the TV.
Thing is none of the TV's in my house look like either a JBL or Farnsworth system, so the idea that it was Farnsworth that invented it because his system is the one in widespread use is now looking somewhat of a feeble argument because CRT based TV's are basically yesterday's technology, with the number of CRT based TV's in use rapidly declining.
Further Farnsworth method of capturing the image for transmission went ages ago, it's all CCD or CMOS devices today and has been for a long time now.
Of course getting an American to actually admit that is like getting the truth out of Trump.
Yes, but Baird was not American, so the Americans picked someone else. Many Americans think the car was invented by Henry Ford...
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.
bullshit, the information was transmitted by electronic means. scanners and fax machines have electomechanical parts too, they aren't electronic devices?
The real question here is: if Philo T. Farnsworth were alive today to see what's become of television, would he be happy or sad?
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