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Posted by GMAN on 10/07/37 11:50
In article <J0yLIG.1CwF@wjv.com>, bv@wjv.com wrote:
>In article <e5bvrj01hk2@news4.newsguy.com>,
>J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote:
>>Anybody wrote:
>>
>>> In article <2006052722384216807-dylanw@xmissiondotcom>, Dylan Winslow
>>> <dylanw@xmission.dot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2006-05-27 19:45:08 -0400, "J. Clarke"
>>>> <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> said:
>>>>
>>>> > TV was round in the 1860s.
>>>>
>>>> Ahem.
>>>
>>> Errr ... what?!?!?!?
>
>>> I must have missed something. TV wasn't even invented until the 1920s.
>
>>Sorry, I misremembered. 1880s. TV didn't start with the
>>Iconoscope and it didn't become wireless until the 1920s, but it
>>existed long before that.
>
>Actually the first time a picture was captured and shown predates
>the telephone by many years.
>
>It was the old spinning wheel type, and had the wheels on a common
>shaft with the image being picked up by device behind the lens in
>front of the first disk, and then amplified to turn on a light
>on the connected disk. Not TV as we know it, but neither was
>the first telephone invented by Bell/Gray [take your pick on that
>controversy]
>
>>There's a history of television being shown on The Science
>>Channel that has a good deal of early history that you don't see
>>on most sites discussing the history of television.
>
>I saw diagrams of the original device on a shaft a jillion years
>ago. And when I was in college I found a book on TV that was
>printed in the late 1920s - when the only device out there
>was the spinning disk.
>
>Then there was John Logie Baird who invented/produced the first
>video disk back in about 1929.
>
>And as I recall his transmitted system used 3 signals. One for
>audio, one for turning the light on and off, and another for
>keeping the spinning disks in sync.
>
>TV is much older than most people think/assume.
>
>Bill
But the electronic television that we have all been using for the last 75+ years
was invented by Philo T Farnsworth.
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