BailoutBill

BailoutBill t1_iyde7f3 wrote

Reply to comment by ucanttrustapenguin in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

You're confusing the term "television." Technically, Baird invented what was called, at the time, a "televisor." It used tech invented by a German and used some sort of spinning disk. Farnsworth used line scanning. Televisions use line scanning.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/who-really-invented-the-mechanical-television/

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BailoutBill t1_iydc1mz wrote

Reply to comment by ucanttrustapenguin in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

He didn't invent visuals on a screen. He invented the first devices that evolved into modern devices we refer to as televisions: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-top-ten-patent-wars-television-10-73080/#:~:text=Philo%20T.,until%20shortly%20before%20they%20expired.

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BailoutBill t1_iyda5pw wrote

Reply to comment by ucanttrustapenguin in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

The way I understand it, Baird didn't use the scan technique that Philo came up with and all modern screens use. So, Baird had earlier visual displays, but his tech ultimately was not used to develop modern screens.

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