UAForever21 t1_iyei4za wrote
Wait so who really made the TV? Is it John Baird or Phil Farnsworth? I was always told as a kid that John Logie Baird is the inventor of the television...
ItDoesntMatter59 t1_iyey2f2 wrote
Baird.
If you actually read the article then look up image dissector ie the videcon used to take tv pictures it gives yet more names.
Farnsworth had an input to the invention of tv but to claim its his alone is not viable.
nullcharstring t1_iyf9yap wrote
The person that actually made TV was none of the above. Vadimir Zworykin working for David Sarnoff at RCA was able to tie up all the technology, monopolise it with patents and refine it for mass production. The popular narrative was that the technology was stolen from Farnsworth, but even so, it still took all of the resource of RCA to build the hardware to capture, broadcast and receive television, mass produce it in quantities of millions and have the political clout to obtain the radio bandwidth from the federal government needed to broadcast the signal.
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