IP: more on Philo T. Farnsworth and the birth of television

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:59:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: IP: more on  Philo T. Farnsworth and the birth of  television

www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/baird.html

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John Logie Baird is remembered as the inventor of mechanical television,
radar and fiber optics. Successfully tested in a laboratory in late 1925 and
unveiled with much fanfare in London in early 1926, mechanical television
technology was quickly usurped by electronic television, the basis of modern
video technology. Nonetheless, Baird's achievements, including making the
first trans-Atlantic television transmission, were singular and critical
scientific accomplishments. Lonely, driven, tireless and often poor, the
native Scot defined the pioneering spirit of scientific inquiry. 

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