Someone answered a question with this statement, and I was wondering how valid a point it is...
Thanks!
2006-12-15 04:08:55 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what difference on this earth would it POSSIBLY make?!....
*sigh*
2006-12-15 04:10:48 · answer #1 · answered by Thor the Mighty 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
LOL! OK. The inventors of brodcasting televison are as follows:
Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires. Christian.
Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube. Jewish
Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals. Unknown
Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a selenium camera that would allow people to see by electricity. Christian
At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television." Othodox Russian Christian- Slightly different, but still Christian.
Lee de Forest invents the Audion vacuum tube that proved essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ability to amplify signals. Unknown
Most of the people who were involved in the first television broadcasts, and then stations were a mix of Christian and Jewish.
HOWEVER, first and foremost, they were scientists and inventors and their religion had little to nothing to do with what they were trying to- successfully - acheive.
2006-12-15 12:19:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Interesting, and I don't think so - but let me research the query for you:
"TV historian Jeff Kisseloff remarked that "Three hundred [people responsible for some part of the invention] is, in fact, a conservative figure since it took nearly a century of research before Milton Berle could show up in your living room in drag." Some of these developments came from advances in motion pictures, some from the telephone, and others from radio. "
So the answer is, lots of people, some likely Christian and some not - but I don't Christianity has anything to do with television itself, no.
2006-12-15 12:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by skatoolaki 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The television was invented by several scientists over a period of time starting in 1873. It is quite likely that these scientists are Christians, but that's probably irrelevant.
2006-12-15 12:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by Enceladus 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Television was invented by a Christian named John Logie Baird and I am sure he never dreamed that it would be used as it is today.
2006-12-15 12:12:44 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John Logie Baird invented television i.e. he was the first to broadcast TV pictures which surely qualifies him as the inventor. He wasn't a Christian. I don't know who Farnsworth was but he wasn't the inventor of TV.
2006-12-15 12:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Television was invented by John L Baird (or Philo Farnsworth if your an American) Baird was Scottish so he was probably a christian(Farnsworth was an LDS)
2006-12-15 12:14:04 · answer #7 · answered by padcurtin 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe it was Nipkow that had the first television demonstration in the 1890's or so. I don't know if he was a Christian.
2006-12-15 12:14:47 · answer #8 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Philo T. Farnsworth, one of the most important inventors of the television, was a Christian, and credits his faith and prayer with the ideas that led to the television.
2006-12-15 12:15:10 · answer #9 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Al Gore invented the internet !
2006-12-15 12:11:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Considering some of the things that come on (e.g. South Park), I doubt it.
2006-12-15 12:11:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋