Although instead of TV merging with computers, we instead merged computers with TVs, creating the smart TV. And the "Bank where you can watch every program ever produced"? That's RU-vid, Netflix, and all the others.
It's a good way of knowing if you've seen a vid - leave a comment, like comments. Happens to me too - and I don't drink. I've probably replied to you before and forgotten. What can you do?
Two great inventors and benefactors of mankind often forgotten today, who changed our world: Alexander Cummings, inventor of the modern water-closets, and Eugène René Poubelle, prefect of Paris, inventor of the trash can. Just picture yourself what was the world before them...
KieranMoggTV thanks, how nice of you. Frankly, I'd be happy with 1 percent of what he has, success, money and fame. I'd still be better off than the vast majority of people on this planet.
More like Smart TV, which lets you access all of them from a big screen on the wall and not an actual computer, which tends to still be made for the "office", not for everybody to sit around at once. Though there's always multi-monitors or casting.
Jeremy is the perfect host for talking about historical topics and at the end totally nailed where the world was going, this was shot in the year MMIV (57:52) aka 2004 which predates RU-vid by 1 year and smartphones by about 1-2 years. (not iPhones I mean Windows pocket PCs.)
Literally thought the exact same this was made nearly 20 years ago yet he got it down to even the sunglasses which I think apple have. Just recently done 😮😮
TV was correctly anticipated by the people in what we now call the deep state what power it would grant those who control what is broadcast to it. In other words, TV was anticipated to easily supersede radio and newspapers combined. It was a vision shared by most governments, shady corporations & wealthy individuals.
Clarkson brought up a great point about the 1960 Presidential debate. Kennedy wasn't just charming and charismatic but he looked more relaxed and at ease with being on television, especially in the way he looked directly into the camera, speaking to the American people. Even when he and Nixon are just sitting, Kennedy has his legs crossed, completely natural and Nixon seemed on the edge of his seat almost. It's amazing how much is communicated to us about a person non-verbally and TV gave us that. I'm not surprised at all that Kennedy won.
@@ianthepelican2709It was all a mind game. There were no nuclear weapons. The pretence that two had been dropped on Japan made the “Cuban missile crisis” relatively easy to pull off.
Top inventions that Jezza overlooked 1. Pizza 2. Screw off tops on beer bottles 3. Post it notes for sticking on the fridge to remind you to buy beer, pizza and antacid 4 Reels & shorts so that we can waste our lives at a more spectacular rate than ever before.
Story of that Mormon boy sound like really lame made up crap... It seriously sound like it was made really quickly to get hyped and take a spot of "being first" it's full of cliché it have no sense in some parts and it just don't fit to anything.
Moral of the story? A business man of mediocre intelligence will always win over geniuses and take it all without doing any of the work. Higher minds are chained to visions and morals.
These Business men are the true Genius to be able make a Real practical product that humanity benefited and not tinker-toy that lives only in a laboratory. Most of these inventors are rather too focused on one thing but totally mediocre on most things.
wow, beautifully produced and clarkson called it at the end, watching this program specifically from a virtually endless bank of programs, straight from my phone and hopefully before I die I can rewatch it down the line in hologram format or maybe it will be virtual reality, time will tell.
Watching this on my mobile phone in 2024 Thats stores countess music files Pictures Books From which I can check my bank. Review my diary Book flights all over the world Book hotels anywhere Speak face to face with my girlfriend 20 miles away Amazing this all happened in my lifetime being born in 62 what changes I've seen amazing
Many 'inventors' (innovative people who designed/developed unique technologies/products having specialized 'uses') never got rich. Many never even received non-monetary credit for bringing the world some of the devices upon which we all survive and advance. A 'patent' is only as good as the legal muscle the inventor can muster to defend their own 'right' to their own 'intellectual property'.
Wow a lot of hatred here. One thing to note RCA ended up paying 1 million dollars to Farnsworth for the multi year license of his 1927 patent. It doesn't matter who or what country does these documentaries they don't always use in depth research into everyone involved in the development in a product. You need more time for research than is available and at times it might have been presented but was left on the cutting room floor as the saying goes. The editor is rarely a historian or even knowledgeable on the subject being filmed. Sadly many history books are the same.
He died from alcoholism from being Scottish, it's just the way they go up there. Keep away from Scotland when the zombies attack, all the ones up there will be pickled and rotproof.
In 1931, David Sarnoff of RCA offered to buy Farnsworth's patents for US $100,000, with the stipulation that he become an employee of RCA, but Farnsworth refused as this was a pittance - also farnsworth & baird MET IN PERSON IN 1932 - he never saw penny one mentioned above - he got more money from the Govt for nuke fusion research than he did for TV & that money was ONLY paid AFTER his death after nearly 2 decades of campaigning by the 2 dear old ladies in the documentary
TV started out with just a few channels, now we have a channel for every single person. That is what internet on your phone/computer is, your very own channel. Except we don't call it Tele-Vision anymore, even though it clearly is, Wi-Fi is most definitely just radio waves, with some computer somewhere talking to a small computer in your smartphone/tablet. Words change, but at the fundamental core, Radio is still going strong. There are more radio waves than ever, and everyone has a computer now. We just call it a smartphone, but it is, once again, the exact same thing.
Unlike the radio, it is known what you’re watching and listening to at all times. You’re being photographed, videoed and listened to also, even in the dark. You’ll have things suggested to you for you to consume. What you’re able to find isn’t necessarily what you think, either. The results of searches you run aren’t objective but personal, yet you won’t know that. You’re in Plato’s Cave. Much more so now than 60 years ago.
Oh Jeremy your comments about dogs sniffing bottoms lolololol. I'm in bed after a bad fall a few days ago I think 5 or 6 is better 😂😂😂😂😂😂. But the cat lost interest. 😢😢😢😢😢
It is Tesla’s original concept, demonstrated in his famous lecture at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1893. In 1943, six months after Tesla’s death, the United States Supreme Court recognized Tesla’s more significant contribution as the inventor of radio technology.
I just can't hold my laughter watching this whole show with my smile ear to ear all the way through, Baird's brilliance, determination and definitive of purpose has just ignited my spark, for quite a while I have been working on a project that I was yet to drop but now I am determined to stake everything I have no do nothing but make sure it's a success
As usual American's try to take the credit with a half-arsed story claiming they were the first to do something... TV, Telephone, Computers etc. It's interesting that the British researched words from different languages to come up with the name of TeleVision, yet this Farnsworth guy randomly made up the name without any information as to where he got it from, he was a 14 year old with no education that suddenly invents something with complex electronic technology. I don't buy this, I'm pretty sure the Farnsworth story is made up or he was sold ideas
How lucky we are on these Islands that in England and Scotland we have two of the most influential and creative countries on the Planet.Even the Japenese have acknowledged this.
No Ryan, fact. See the thing is. You American folk hate other countries, having any success whatsoever. Do some research. Now stop being a butthurt little American. Good man.
Ryan Herich First demonstration of Television British.First Pictures sent from one room to another British.First Pictures sent across the Atlantic British.First Colour TV British.Mr Baird.
@@CoolioXXX52 No, your ignorant mind. No other nation has invented more or influenced the world more than Britain. Even your modern Democracy stems from Westminster Parliament London. In fact most of everything you have today, you can thank the British. Skyscrapers? Not without the British inventing building with metal beams & inventing plate glass! We even invented America itself! 😉
People keep griping about hours of television, but the truth is that people are just watching a well-edited version of what they would do anyway. Live theater, classroom learning, etc. have all been adapted to TV. Just because you're watching TV doesn't mean you have to be rotting your brain on Honey Boo Boo.
He missed the proper way of describing how a television works: "Signals from the antenna goes in here and power goes in there. Witchcraft happens and you get picture on the screen."
Not even mentioning Rozing and especially Zvorykin? When it was him who really made the camera and the vacuum tube& Who invented color TV? Is that because British are difficult pronouncing Russian names? I am rather surprised.
The United Kingdom was at the forefront of innovation and Scottish inventors in particular should be thanked. Penicillin, treatment of malaria, the telephone, vacuum flask, percussion cap, radar etc. etc. and yes - the first television. Get over it - good program Jeremy.
Mundify66 no, thats just how Brits like to tell the history. The rest of the world has a different version of what happened. In Russia for example, it was a Russian American that invented Television, Zworykin. But his tv invention was based on inventions made by many others. What Baird did was illustrate the idea of TV was going to be. But mechanical tv is a piece of shit. It would never work.
The wireless radio is based on the discovery of electromagnetic waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1886. Guglielmo Marconi applied this discovery to the telegraphic transfer news: In 1897, he succeeded in a wireless transmission over a distance of five kilometers, in 1901, he radioed across the Atlantic. The technical foundations of broadcasting were in the late 19th Century by Nikola Tesla invented and patented. However, in 1895 a fire destroyed his finished plant.
Im a Telecommunications Engineer (two way communications of all types) and I’ve never been a big fan of Broadcast media (one way communication). It could only ever be a propaganda platform than anything else. I would rather be talked to than to be talked at!
please everyone quit beefing. US invented the TV we use today but the BRITISH invented the TV first. it was a different type but it still was TV. also the British have better world records for TV such as the first the transmit a tv signal across the Atlantic. and they also made their TV system first so I suppose them made TV FIRST.
zachary159 It's amazing how people care more about the country that did whatever over the poor inventors of both countries who got fuck all for their work.
I genuinely can't believe the professor at 53 minutes think children burn less calories when doing 'nothing' compared to watching TV is because they fidget less... the answer is obviously because when watching TV they're not thinking, your brain on average uses about 20% of your daily energy needs, the brain uses considerably more energy when it's thinking about stuff compared to when its at rest, when asked to stare at the blank wall their minds will start to wander, maybe making up stories in their head to pass the time etc, scary how these people can get into these positions of academic study and miss something so obvious, I know this is an old documentary now but come on
Votre réflexion comporte au moins une erreur majeure: en regardant la télévision, notre cerveau est très loin d'être passif. C'est mon opinion, et je la respecte.
Jagadish Chandra Bose was an Indian physicist who pioneered semiconductors. It was this work from an often forgotten man which allowed the invention of the valves which powered Colosus and the cathode ray tube which gave us television well into the early 21st century.
he missed on one big thing that has changed the world forever that tv helped lay the groundwork for and that's computers and the internet. without a monitor to see anything visual the computer that we use along with the internet as we know it wouldn't exist today.
He did briefly explain the Plan Position Indicator, which greatly improved the usability of radar in world war 2 because no longer did the radar operator have to discern receiving signals from various oscilloscopes, but could instead use a circular or semi circular display that incorporated feedback on the transmitting beam and the received signal
on the contrary farnsworth was paid due high respecct & rightly so - after all you are typing on the digital version of what he invented,its just powered differently
I love when they brought up John Logie Baird on the Grand Tour, when they bring up that the English call famous Scots ‘British’ so that they can subtly claim ownership of them. “When Logie Baird was messing about with pneumatic shoes, he was a Scottish crackpot. When he invented the television, he was a British genius.”
Holographic TV is not going to be a thing anytime soon. Nobody needs it and it's pretty much as achievable as a light saber. Plus, we already have efficient TVs so it makes no sense. Also, the TV as we know it has already been replaced by the internet so...
I think this definitely leaves out a lot on the history end, especially the "what happened after" stuff. For Baird: He actually ended up getting funded, ended up prototyping the first 3DTV and the first standard that would have been equivalent to 1080i, and a proper color standard. I think CBS was even funding him as they were trying to develop a hybrid mechanical/electric color set (basically there would be a spinning color wheel in front of a CRT to provide color signals). For Farnsworth: He actually had a LOT going on, even still with TV after RCA made their "own system". His patent situation was actually SUPER sticky for RCA for nearly a decade with legal issues. He ended up forcing RCA to license his 1927 CRT patent in the late 30s, and they had to pay him over $1M in that time's dollar. His company ended up getting bought by ITT in the early 50s and funded his Nuclear Fusion research (along with other projects like what eventually became the base radar tracking system for modern air traffic control) for 18 years, which then got taken over by Brigham Young University, and then by a private company that Farnsworth founded (which then imploded).
Yes Is Christmas 2022 end TV Is dying end RU-vid i Reading but this Will mean people Will Watch programs for Kids why there are to many restrictions why oh no someone think abaut Kids that are 2 years old only they Watch RU-vid
Holly shit, the more time you spend siting instend of being active, the fatter you get? Seriosuly? I would never figure that one out. How about, and I belive it's a splendit idea, we eat less? You move less, you eat less. If your kid isn't hungry (and I seen that too many times) DONT force him to eat. TV didn't make me loose my line, it was one for momy, one for dady that made that happen, creating this fucked up compulsion to eat everything on a dish even if Im full half way through.
Ref the last 5mins. Sat in my car watching it now on my phone. And still with the whole catalogue of everything thats been on, I'm watching old JC TV. Can't believe he lost an arm wrestle to BoJo, future commenter what did happen to him? Did the MET do their Job for his covid party's?
Noticed the British bashing at the top of the comments, what alot of people don't know is my Grandad, a Brit, started the first ever independent TV station for the FBS, but coz it was a forces station was never officially recognised.
Clarkson colours outside the lines a lot, i think - lots of history here, and maybe gossip, but really thin on facts and technical details - where is James May, when you need him?
Marconi's "invention" was stolen by Marconi from Nicola Tesla (now proven in court). Marconi took the opportunity to pursue the wireless transmission after his close association with Tesla, where he learned of the idea.
Come on Jeremy I love you you know it and I know it and I know you do your research immensely you know and I know Nicholas Tesla was the father of wireless radio
