Who invented the Televison set?

Question

Hello, I have been told that television as we know it was invented by a Scotsman called John Yogi Bear, in a house in Helensburgh Scotland.

In later life he became increasingly depressed by continually seeing himself represented as a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character , obsessed with stealing picnic baskets, and he eventually committed suicide.

Can anyonee confirm this? .. I have been checking on Wikipedia without success.

Answer 1

Yes you're absolutely right, he did commit suicide. He was committed to serve 10 years in Bedlam mental hospital for stealing picnic lunchboxes where he overdosed on jam sandwiches, in fact he was a 'Basketcase'! Ooh' sorry for that! Hilarious question!

Answer 2

Sorry they are all wrong and it is a horrible admission for me as a Scotsman. It is a popular misconception that John Logie - B invented the television when in fact the man how invented the television as we know it today was Marconi. John L B was the first to transmit a wireless image but to a machine that bears no resemblance to they way our tv's work now. Marconi soon after invented the proper tv and for a while both systems competed (like VHS and beta max did in the 80's). But Marconi's was technically superior in every way.

Is this the sort of boring answer you were looking for - or were you looking for a stupid one??

Answer 3

John Logie Baird

Answer 4

Don't Know if first name was John, but Yogi Bear was a cartoon character along with Bobo

John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland, the son of a clergyman. Dogged by ill health for most of his life, he nonetheless showed early signs of ingenuity, rigging up a telephone exchange to connect his bedroom to those of his friends across the street. His studies at Glasgow University were interrupted by the outbreak of World War One. Rejected as unfit for the forces, he served as superintendent engineer of the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company. When the war ended he set himself up in business, with mixed results.

Baird then moved to the south coast of England and applied himself to creating a television, a dream of many scientists for decades. His first crude apparatus was made of odds and ends but by 1924 he managed to transmit a flickering image across a few feet. On 26 January 1926 he gave the world's first demonstration of true television before fifty scientists in an attic room in central London. In 1927 his television was demonstrated over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow, and he formed the Baird Television Development Company. (BTDC). In 1928 the BTDC achieved the first transatlantic television transmission between London and New York and the first transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic. He also gave the first demonstration of both colour and stereoscopic television.

Answer 5

John Logie baird

Answer 6

Don't know about his state of mind,poor chap,often happens that genius is close to insanity, I know as I have the same problem, however I think he was the one that got the fame but someone else worked on it first. I'll be checking the answers.

Answer 7

It was Logie Baird not Yogi
But he invented an electro-mechanical system, The modern all electronic TV system we use today was developed by the EMI company

Answer 8

I think Yogi Bear was named after baseball player Yogi Berra, who was famous for his witticisms. He once said, "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."

Answer 9

Yogi Bear and his assistant Booboo for sure

Answer 10

Jay Leno.