The Birth of Television

The Birth of the television is a bit tricky, some say John Loge Baird others Vladimir Zworykin and some others say Philo Farnsworth, but the truth as far as the research concluded is that none of them single handedly invented television.  Every other scientist used some others idea to develop their own television system. But the first principle which all these things started was the invention of the Cathode Ray Tube in 1897 by K.F. Braun; he was one who first invented the tube which formed the back bone of television. But it was a crude tube and it needs development over the years and there is someone or the other in west and some in east were involved in improving it. The important contributors and their work are listed below.

1897 ----- Cathode Ray Tube ---- K.F.Braun

Some say that even K.F.Braun got the idea from a German; Paul Nipkow who developed a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884 called the Nipkow disk (Try doing the research on this, you might end up knowing someone eventually)

1907 ---- Attempt to build a Television ----- English inventor A.A. Campbell-Swinton 

    Boris Rosing, a Russian scientist

 

Both did it independently since they were no TV to say that someone in the other end of the world was doing the same thing. 

1920 ---- John Logie Baird patented the box which produced a 30-line image and transmitted actual images 

1928 --- First commercially produced Television called Baird Models was sold in Olympia Radio exhibition in England and only a few dozen of them were made and in the United States it was the Octagon made by General Electric in the same year.

So because of this John Logie Baird got the lime light as the television inventor and other stuck their heads in mud. Though many patented the similar technology and many more of them were in the cock fight, which eventually they don’t know that they were in the cock fight, the television which changed the way we live, eat and dress came into existence.

Conclusion: No single man made the Television but one single man did get the credit, and some others show up after intensive research.

Now say you have the television, what about the cable and television station. Keep looking the cock fight gets better and better. ….  

sources : The Birth of Television, Google.co.uk