Someones got to much time on his hands. The Baird experiments was only a flickering light. He spun a black disc with pie shaped cutouts and a light behind it. He could transmit black and white. It actually had nothing to do with television it was just the first transmitted image.
Without the cathode ray tube there would be no television. The cathode ray tube (picture tube) was invented by Philo Farnsworth working with his wife in their small laboratory in the early 30s. The first TV broadcast was in 1939 but because of WW2 all the production of cathode ray tubes went into radar systems. Television didn't really get going till after the war.
Philo hated what his invention became and wouldn't have one in his house. He changed his mind in August of 1969 when he saw the first man set foot on the moon.
2006-12-31 00:30:43
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't know for sure which of the above actually invented television, but without Thomas A. Edison we would all have to watch it by gaslight and candles
2006-12-31 10:03:10
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answered by cuban friend 5
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I don't understand your question, but assume you want to know who invented the television?
official answer...
John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946), an electrical engineer forced by ill-health into early retirement, pursued a long held interest in transmitting pictures. In the summer of 1924 he rented a two room attic at 22 Frith Street, Glasgow and set it up as a laboratory. For the next 18 months he conducted a series of experiments that led to his demonstrating his "noctovision" to members of the Royal Institution at is laboratory on January 27th, 1926 - the first public demonstration of the medium. A number of people were working on picture transmission at the time. Baird’s system used infrared rays to communicate pictures from a darkened room. From there he went on to transmit pictures between London and Glasgow using telephone lines in 1927. A year later he used radio waves to transmit pictures between London and New York. His company, Baird Television Development Company, made the first programme for the BBC (broadcast on September 30, 1929). His mechanical system was only to have a short lifespan - it was replaced by an electronic system developed by Marconi and EMI.
real truth....
Alexander Flemming, while working with bacteria, left a sample of a particularly nasty disease over a weekend. When he came back he found that the sample had gone mouldy, and a curious glass object had grown from the centre. This was the first cathode-ray tube. In a fit of depression (because he hadn't discovered the cure for V.D.) he cast the unfortunate piece of glassware into a far corner.
The outcast tube wandered the streets, eventually turning to drink and drugs. But one day, by chance, he met a beautiful chest of drawers who changed his life. Eventually, they settled down together and lived happily ever after. Well almost, the drawers developed terminal dry rot and the tube blew it's own electrodes out.
During his brief life the Cathode ray tube fathered a son by the chest of drawers. The first television set! Orphaned by the tragic loss of it's parents the TV set wandered the streets, until he was found in a bus shelter by Logi Baird. He took the set home and let it live in the corner of his sitting room. The TV was an immediate hit with Baird's children who sat watching it for hours. This gave Baird a wonderful idea: pictures could be transmitted, and then received by the television set. Every home could have one and TV sets would never have to walk the streets again! He immediately set about breeding the sets using radios as stud, to make the next generation of TVs capable of sound. So the TV revolution began.
After the initial breeding programme, the BBC was set up, followed by other channels. Soon it became a world wide obsession. And so we come to the point of this story. As with all resources the TV has been exploited. Many people are still ignorant of the suffering forced upon TVs world wide. A TV's life starts in a battery farm. Here thousands of TVs are kept just for breeding, in crowded, unhealthy condition. Most will die and be sold for scrap before their second birthday, after producing four to five litters. The young TV pups are sold to fattening warehouses where they are kept in skin tight packages stacked upon each other. They have only two breathing holes,through one of which they are fed a high protein slurry. Then they are transported to markets such as the Dixons, who are notorious for their maltreatment of domestic appliances. The lucky ones will be sold to good homes. Others could end up in homes with children, where they may have lollipops forced upon them or suffer death by orange juice. Still more are bought by owners who seem to think that when the TVs go wrong they should be thumped to repair them. The horror does not stop there! A proportion of the young TV sets are destined to become computer monitors. This necessitates a painful operation whereby they are neutered. . . without an anesthetic! So next time you are about to throw something at the TV, just think.
2006-12-31 07:44:46
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answered by DAVID C 6
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