A segment from a 1996 episode of the Discovery Channel’s “Origins” program discussing the origins of television. Featuring Paul Schatzkin, author of “The Boy Who Invented Television.” Used with permission.
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@maciria1 Yeah because I guess the TV has misinformed us of all the death and corruption worldwide too? Get a grip! I HATE people who say the Moon Landing was a hoax, despite the amount of evidence available. And why bring up the Moon Landing on a video about the history of the television? Also if you hate TV so much why are you watching and commenting on a video about it?!
@Andreasito: Farnsworth invented the first electronic television. Nipkow developed a mechanical disk process. The disk system was never commercially successful. The cathray tube system is Farnsworth’s contribution.
The truly inventor of the tv color was guillermo gonzalez camarena,
want it or not, thats the true
525 lines? Crappy NTSC maybe :-p
good lucking playing an xbox on that baird tv….
Guys don’t use wikipedia as a source…the history of television is complex. It’s best to go to “google books” website, type in “history of television” and read the previews of the books or even go to the library to pick up a copy and sit down and read.
Sorry Farnsworth .. the Apollo Moon Landing was Fake !
Like it or not guys the first broadcasting television was made 4 years before the fully electronic tv.
But we know today the man have never being on the moon ,,it was a fake show!!! that is why we should never believe on TV SHOW..TV was invented to disinform mankind..be aware of this box mind control!!!
After 1921, it take only 15 years to get the first televised speech …..it was the one from the infame ” Hitler ” . A tool for powerful propaganda ….just ask Ed Bernays.
well its 2011, we have better tv’s!! WE WELL NEVER BE BORED OF TVs!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Wikipedia says that the inventor of Tele-Vision was Paul Nipkow.
@celebration81 irrelevant if it didn;t have future
it’s allabout the invetion dumass!
tv is about transmission of a pciture on to a device and John Logie Baird invented that before anyone else..
@LordGeorgeRodney Mechanic TV is not ancestor of Electronic TV. Electronic TV was invented before mechanic tv. Mechanic tv hadn’t future.
@celebration81 too late he invneted it before the Americans and Hungarians in 1925
@LordGeorgeRodney Bair’s system was born too late. He wasn’t inventor. Type: History of Television in english wikipedia
@celebration81 If it’s invention you have then Baird is a the ‘first’
It is what inventions are all about eh?
@LordGeorgeRodney Hahaha, braid made a mechanic television, which was not ancestor of electronic tv
@celebration81 Logie Baird came first by many months
john logi bear or howbout john YOGI BEAR
i bet ya thats wear the name yogi bear came from
Their voices are really annoying.
Like, this video is hosed because it goes black from 6:06 to 6:37 resulting in a 21 second information loss. Way to go, babe!
Lol, I sure hope those BBC lot aren’t spying on me XD
Farnsworth was quite a visionary. In 1955, he predicted widescreen HDTV, but at twice the resolution that we have in 2011. He was a few years ahead of where we are today.
@peugeotrider2012 The first non-experimental color broadcast was in 1943, when Jerry Lewis headlined a program that was beamed from NYC to Princeton Univ., specifically for the enjoyment of Dr. Albert Einstein. No kidding… go look it up!