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ucanttrustapenguin t1_iydin1c wrote

Reply to comment by BailoutBill 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

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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