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The history of television

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For ages Man dreamt about the of transmitting pictures over great distances, but not until he had learnt to master the electron was there any real hope of turning dream into practical .Different experiments by various people, in the field of electricity and radio, led to the development of basic technologies and ideas that laid the for the invention of television.
A young man from Utah, Philo Farnsworth, believed it . Enamored of all things electrical, he began thinking about a similar scanning as a teenager. In 1927, when he was just 21, he successfully built and his dream. Philo had created the first electronic television system, which did away with the rotating disks and other mechanical aspects of mechanical television. Thus was born the system which is the basis of all modern TVs. But as he tried to commercialize it he ran afoul of the redoubtable David Sarnoff of RCA, who had long been in television. Sarnoff tried to buy the rights to Farnsworth's designs, but when his offer was rebuffed, he set about creating a proprietary system for RCA, an effort that was led by Vladimir Zworykin, a talented engineer from Russia who had been developing his own TV system.
After several years and massive expenditures, Zworykin completed the job, adapting some of Farnsworth's ideas. Sarnoff publicized the product by televising the opening of the 1939 World's Fair in New York, but in the end he had pay for a license to Farnsworth's patents anyway.
In the ensuing years RCA flooded the market with millions of black-and-white and also took aim at the next big opportunity— television.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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