My daughter wants to know who invented the television?

Answer 1

There is no clear answer. These two men are the most likely inventors.

--Philo T. Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin

Answer 2

The origins of what would become today's television system are traced back as far as the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, and the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Nipkow in 1884. All practical television systems use the fundamental idea of scanning an image to produce a time series signal representation. That representation is then transmitted to a device to reverse the scanning process. The final device, the television, relies on the human eye to integrate the result into a coherent image again.

While electromechanical techniques were developed prior to World War II, most notably by Charles Francis Jenkins and John Logie Baird, all-electronic television systems relied on the inventions of Philo Taylor Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin and others to produce a system suitable for mass distribution of television programming. Commercial broadcast programming, following years of experimental broadcasts seen only in a few specially-equipped homes, occurred in both the United States and the United Kingdom before World War II.

The first television broadcasts with a modern level of definition (240+ lines) were made in England in 1936. Television did not become commonplace in United States homes until the middle 1950s. While North American over-the-air broadcasting was originally free of direct marginal cost to the consumer (i.e., cost in excess of acquisition and upkeep of the hardware) and broadcasters were compensated primarily by receipt of advertising revenue, increasingly television consumers obtain their programming by subscription to cable television systems or direct-to-home satellite transmissions. In the United Kingdom, on the other hand, the owner of each television must pay a licence fee annually which is used to support the British Broadcasting Corporation. Color tv was invented by Mexican Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena in 1940. http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/Who_invented_the_color_television

Hope this helps you answer your daughters question!

Answer 3

According to Smithsonian Institution in Washing D.C. Philo and Taylor Farnsworth is credited the invention on television.

Answer 4

Phillip Farnsworth Created the Television After Converting the original still photo camera in to a movement based video recording cameras and sending it through a satelite into a censor in a box with a screen monitor.

Answer 5

There was no one individual who invented tv. There was a group of scientists that came together to create the first television. It took them many years to even make a single one.

Answer 6

There wasn't exactly ONE single inventor. As with most advances in technology, there are many people who make contributions to the advancements in technology. The link below contains a timeline and info about the advances that created broadcast television.

Answer 7

German, Paul Nipkow developed a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884 called the Nipkow disk. This was the very first electromechanical TV scanning system. Nipkow's system was abandoned early in the history of TV for the electronic systems developed by later inventors.

Answer 8

Numerous people worked towards this end, but Philo T, Farnsworth usually gets the nod, although Vladimir Zworykin is also mentioned

Answer 9

George Carey., and W. E. Sawyer have a possibiliy of the invention of the terlevision

Answer 10

Philo Taylor Farnsworth was his name not Philip.