2007-02-19 06:46:53 · 14 answers · asked by patrick m 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
John Logie Baird was the first person to give a public demonstration of a working TV. Many people were working on the concept decades earlier however, so he can't be credited with all the work!
2007-02-19 06:50:21 · answer #1 · answered by clarky303 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of television.
1831-1900 1901-1927 1928-1950 1951-present
1831
Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism jumpstarts the era of electronic communication.
1862 First Still Image Transferred
Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his Pantelegraph and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.
1873
Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this reveals the possibilty for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.
1876
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.
Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube.
So with all these peoples help, John Logie Baird was one of its foremost pioneers who made major advances in the field. He is generally credited with being the first person to produce a live, moving television image in halftones by reflected light. Baird achieved this, where other inventors had failed, by obtaining a better photoelectric cell and improving the signal conditioning from the photocell and the video amplifier.
2007-02-19 07:41:11 · answer #2 · answered by softball Queen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I always thought it was John Logie Baird.
However wikipedia states not invented by 1 person??
2007-02-20 09:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Logie Baird. He was a Scottish engineer.
2007-02-19 13:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by Saad 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yogi Bear - Sorry John Logie Baird. And just to make it even better he is Scottish, as are a lot of sound inventors.
2007-02-19 07:57:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Philo Farnsworth
2007-02-19 06:49:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it was John Logie Baird
2007-02-19 07:03:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terry Wogan.
2007-02-19 15:06:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
john logie baird
2007-02-19 10:58:50 · answer #9 · answered by debbie b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
john logi baird!
2007-02-19 06:49:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋