Sunday, August 20, 2006
Who invented the TV?
From the "Modern Media Milestones" category. Let us note the birthday of Philo Farnsworth, inventor of TV who was scooped by Gatesian businessmen of this time out of getting credit for inventing it.
Imagine driving your tractor and plowing lonely western wheat fields. What would you think about? Farnsworth was thinking of transmitting pictures electronically. Somehow the traversing the rows mde him realize that scanning the image line by line and refreshing it every other line would do the trick.
If you are a tech nerd, you might enjoyEmpire of the Air a history of the lives of the inventors of television. It is very detailed and has great images and interviews. It is just too detailed for the casual viewer, IMHO.Who invented the TV?
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