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Alan_Smithee_ t1_iyeshto wrote

Reply to comment by Hawkeye_x_Hawkeye 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

Not at all.

He didn’t invent television; it was invented by Baird.

He came up with a new and improved approach, which became the standard.

But Farnsworth was himself screwed over by David Sarnoff of RCA.

Amazing how US technological history is so full of tales like that.

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trailercock t1_iyf5r90 wrote

From what I underatand, Farnsworth did prove the concept could work or at least diagramed how electronic television could work in 1914 while he was still in school. So he probably was the first known person to publicly communicate the concept of electronic television.

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_iyf96gp wrote

Nonsense.

Baird based his television on the work of Paul Nipkow, a German scientist who patented his ideas for a complete television system in 1884. Nipkow likewise used a rotating disk with holes in it to scan images, but he never achieved more than the crudest of shadowy pictures. Various inventors worked to develop this idea, and Baird was the first to achieve easily discernible images. In 1928, Baird made the first overseas broadcast from London to New York over phone lines and in the same year demonstrated the first color television.

So many inventors and scientists had been discussing the concept for years.

Farnsworth is credited as developing the first fully electronic system.

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