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BailoutBill t1_iyde7f3 wrote

Reply to comment by ucanttrustapenguin in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

You're confusing the term "television." Technically, Baird invented what was called, at the time, a "televisor." It used tech invented by a German and used some sort of spinning disk. Farnsworth used line scanning. Televisions use line scanning.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/who-really-invented-the-mechanical-television/

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ucanttrustapenguin t1_iydin1c wrote

The worlds first television broadcast happened in 1925. Farnsworth demonstrated his tech in ‘27.

He didn’t invent television or television broadcasts. He pioneered a technology that brought it forward. The inventor of the mobile phone didn’t invent telephones. IBM didn’t invent computers. Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb.

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