Who invented television?

J_M_B | 17:57 Sun 16th Oct 2005 | History

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Just reading the article on "Who invented television?". There should be some provision for comments on articles like that as many people would disagree with some of the wild claims for things invented by Baird.

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I'm not sure about Baird's wild claims, but some might use him and his work as a cause celebre to further their own agendas.

Television was not invented by one person, but was a result of many small discoveries and inventions. Baird's TV was mechanical and was doomed as a commercial proposition. The electronic version championed by the huge EMI company who wisely brought together some previous gadgets and an army of scientists and inventors won out over Baird's string and glue system.

In Russia Vladimir Zworykin unveiled his all electronic TV camera three years before Baird's first successful transmission of an image. The Russian, however did not have a useable receiver.

The American Philo T. Farnsworth, working almost wholly in theory and in isolation to others in this field came up with the bones of the electronic scanning system we use today (the same idea as the EMI British system!) and patented the whole system from camera through studio equipment to transmitter and finally to receiver the year following Baird's first flickering images.

Baird was the first to transmit the moving image with his crude camera and receiver, but many others are responsible for the system we use today.

See here for some more on this subject.

J_M_B

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I was referring to this answer that I had read

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Article1580.html

It gives credit to Baird for high definition colour television, radar, fibre-optics and many other things.