the inventors
Philo Farnsworth
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Philo Farnsworth was born august 19th 1906 in Utah. Philo got the idea of how to create television by plowing on his family's farm. From the rows of dirt he realized how television would work. Philo Farnsworth studied television picture transmission at Brigham young University in Utah. In 1927 he produced the 1st television transmission!
paul nipkow
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In 1884, Paul Nipkow was the first person to create a rotating disk as a mechanical scanner, which was the most important part of mechanical television. He came up with the idea of the rotating disk that was used as a scanning device to scan images. The picture resolution was only 18 lines and very poor. One rotation of the disk was equal to one frame on the television. Nobody is sure whether or not Nipkow actually developed a working model of a mechanical television but it is clear that the Nipkow disk was the foundation of mechanical television.
Charles Jenkins
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Jenkins is known as the father of mechanical television in America. Charles Jenkins and his association with television began in 1894, when he first described a method to electrically transmit images and pictures. By 1920, Jenkins had developed a device known as the prismatic rings, which was the main aspect of his radiovisor television kits. The invention was basically a radio that had visual capabilities and projected pictures with a resolution of 40 to 48 lines. Charles also started the first television station in Maryland.
john logie baird
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Baird used the Nipkow disk principle to invent a practical model of a mechanical television. He was the first person to succeed in transmitting live images on TV. Baird did for Brittish TV what Charles Jenkins did for American TV. In 1925, Baird created the first televised image of a human face. Baird is considered one of the pioners of mechanical television.
Alan A. Campbell-Swinton
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Swinton was a British engineer that came up with the idea of using cathode ray tubes in the invention of television. Although he thought of the idea for the cathode ray tubes he could not make a working model. The tubes were eventually made and used by Vladimir K. Zworykin and Philo T. Farnsworth to create practical systems of electronic television.