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2006-09-11 01:59:50 · 7 answers · asked by Toby R 1 in Education & Reference Other - Education

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On December 2, 1922, in Sorbonne, France, Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television. Belin’s machine took flashes of light and directed them at a selenium element connected to an electronic device that produced sound waves. These sound waves could be received in another location and remodulated into flashes of light on a mirror.

Up until this point, the concept behind television was established, but it wasn’t until electronic scanning of imagery (the breaking up of images into tiny points of light for transmission over radio waves), was invented, that modern television received its start. But here is where the controversy really heats up.

The credit as to who was the inventor of modern television really comes down to two different people in two different places both working on the same problem at about the same time: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a privately backed farm boy from the state of Utah.

2006-09-11 02:09:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

On December 2, 1922, in Sorbonne, France, Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television. Belin’s machine took flashes of light and directed them at a selenium element connected to an electronic device that produced sound waves. These sound waves could be received in another location and remodulated into flashes of light on a mirror.

Up until this point, the concept behind television was established, but it wasn’t until electronic scanning of imagery (the breaking up of images into tiny points of light for transmission over radio waves), was invented, that modern television received its start. But here is where the controversy really heats up.

The credit as to who was the inventor of modern television really comes down to two different people in two different places both working on the same problem at about the same time: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a privately backed farm boy from the state of Utah.

2006-09-11 02:03:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

John Logie Baird in 1925 I think

2006-09-11 02:02:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

John Logie Baird invented T.V. as we know it.

2006-09-11 02:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by angelo26 4 · 0 0

I see from some of the American answers they are trying to rewrite history yet again,do you never give up?(Mr Baird is the answer).

2006-09-11 02:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by Francis7 4 · 0 0

I dont know but I thank them everyday lol

2006-09-11 02:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by a_montana_chick 2 · 0 0

lovie, do us a favour and not take us back to albert einstein and his buddies's days

2006-09-11 02:06:44 · answer #7 · answered by sunshine 2 · 0 0

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