who invented television - the americans have a version i have not heard before - can anyone enlighten me?

Answer 1

John Logie Baird he was Scottish

Answer 2

John Logie Baird invented the analogue television, the kind that we do not use today, otherwise people would be winding their television sets. The digital television we use today was invented by the American Philo T. Farnsworth.
Logie Baird and Farnsworth were competitors, and Logie Baird's warehouse burned down, so he was far behind. As the two televisions used different encoding, the BBC would alternate them every month, so you could watch television for one month, but not the next, and so on. Farnsworth's set won out of popularity, so much so that almost every household has more than one.

Answer 3

Origins
Main article: History of television
The origins of what would become today's television system can be 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.

While electromechanical techniques were developed prior to World War II, most notably by Charles Francis Jenkins and John Logie Baird, completely 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 common 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 United States 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 license fee annually which is used to support the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Answer 4

John Logie Baird

Answer 5

John logie Baird was the first person to completely build a working TV camera, TV reciever and TV display. He also made the first trans-atlantic broadcast and made the first independant scheduled TV broadcasts (there were TV broadcasts in germany a few months before Baird's, but they were state broadcasts).

Baird then went on to make and recieve a full colour signal and was the first person in history to record a TV signal.

Farnsworth did a lot of theory (about the cathode ray gun) but never physically produced a full working TV camera or set.

So, Baird IS the father of TV.

Answer 6

When the BBC started to broadcast television programmes, they were obliged to use 2 systems alternate weeks. First week was Bairds mechanical system and the second week Marconi's system. Although Baird is credited with inventing television, he lost out to a far superior system and the BBC opted for Marconi's system eventually.

Answer 7

John Logie Baird was first but the version we have used for the past few decades is Marconi's

Answer 8

Mr Baird

Answer 9

most major inventions owe alot to work carried by other people in the same field.....if you want to make an apple pie completly from scratch,you first have to invent the Universe...

Answer 10

I saw a show on this there were to fellows.One was English and one was American. The Brit was slightly ahead in his ideas but the American had money behind his idea.It came down to a sponcerd race for money and to be able to mass produce with some quality.The american one.