In 1921, radio ruled the airwaves and TV was a distant dream no one could turn into reality. Enter a scarily smart teenage sharecropper named Philo Farnsworth. From: MY MILLION DOLLAR INVENTION: The Vision Thing bit.ly/1AwrVxb
Dude... good post. Couldn't agree more. When people, back then, weren't happy with the direction of their lives... they actually did something about it. Instead of pissing & moaning about it, they motivated themselves.
Later in his life, he went into a deep depression so he froze himself and went to the year 2950 to work at a robot manufacturing company. He quit his job to start a delivery company to fund his private research. In the year 3000, his distant uncle unfroze and started to work at his company as a delivery boy partnered with an alcoholic robot.
just proof that no matter your background, no matter how youve lived before, you can always change your direction and do great things :) this is so inspirational. what a brilliant young man
Buying Magazines is a luxury. A luxury afforded to me at that same age. I had a subscription to "High Fidelity" Magazine. Now I work in Wireless Communications. Not everyone can afford a subscription to a magazine.
Did you watch this episode? They explained that what Baird invented wasn't practical to use. What became the television that we know was what Farnsworth invented.
@@pax41 doesn't change the fact that there were series of earlier reserch and inventions made by other people which helped Fransworth to finally come up with his 'television'. There were dozens of British, Italian, German, French, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Australian inventions/researches helped this young man living in American West to 'invent' the most successful TV of that time.
@@pax41 yet as baird invented the actual process of transmitting images, he is credited as inventing the telivision, all hubert did was make it easier, all he did was take something that existed and find a way to make the bloody yanks rich from it, who knows, if hubert didnt refine it, maybe american tv wouldnt be so shyte
Trying to understand what you found so amazing about that. I'm not trying to find fault in your comment.... I just don't understand what you meant by that. Would you mind helping me to understand that?
You mean John Biard don't you? He helped two other engineers to get electronic tv going - one German and on American. The German was the first with the electronic version!
it seems that inventions are not always created entirely by one person but are works in progress by different contibutors from different countries. Sometimes people have the idea of combining ideas together? It seems a bit suspect to me that a 14yr old farmer could have 'invented TV', and it seems more likeley that each country would laud their own contributors as THE inventor..... some inventors inventions are methodologies to mass produce a thing, or they invent machines that make machines.
I agree there's no point in fighting over it, even now the television is still getting improved upon. Same thing with the computer. the first telephone is a far cry from my iPhone.
Farnsworth contributed the most integral parts and the most patents towards the best working version of the television. Therefore, he was officially accredited with it's invention.
@Cryer24597 Baird transmitted the first TV image, but Farnsworth developed the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. Farnsworth developed the first practical television system complete with receiver and camera...
The first person who invented TV was the first person who invented a means of transmitting, IE (TELE)....visual images, IE (VISION)...ergo 'Tele-vision' This is and was empirically and emphatically John Logie Baird...and the more that Americans refuse to accept this, the more embarrassing it gets. It doesn't matter how much later people improved the device for this concept...You wouldn't say that the person who invented the first nokia invented the mobile phone, because we have pictures of people in the military using telephones in the battlefield in the 2nd world war (albeit with a huge amount of gubbins strapped to the persons back) So in conclusion (tele) (vision) meaning the transmission of an image electronically from one geographical place to another geographical place was invented by BAIRD! End of debate.
Combat engineer traveling out west. Boring.... A radio.. or a video player was fought over. Yes we had video on vinyl. Re rca players. Don't forget it's lonely out there. Video helps a lot. Thank you Philo.
Unfortunately history is filled with brilliant inventors who were crushed by threatened corporations and corrupt politicians. Frank Whittle is another incredible angst inducing story.
@@michaelbeckerman7532 then say that then... Say "Farnsworth was the first person to invent (purely electrical) television" that statement would at least be correct, but you never do you always just say 'television' a mechanical television is still a sodding television because it's called a mechanical television, not a mechanical cheese sandwich maker..it's still a flipping television....it transmits images and broadcasts them from one place to a different place...that is the precise definition of tele-vision. Please get over it.
Baird invented the MECHANICAL version of it, Farnsworth invented the modern ELECTRONIC version of it. Two different things entirely. One allowed for the modern form of TV that we all enjoy today around the world today while the other did not.
