September 7, 1927…First Electronic Television Demonstrated

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September 7, 1927…First Electronic Television Demonstrated

While others were trying to perfect mechanical television, Philo T. Farnsworth was creating the Image Dissector tube which was the heart of his electronic television system. RCA’s Vladimir Zworykin developed the Iconoscope tube and later the Orthicon tube, but it was only when he incorporated ideas from Philo’s Image Dissector tube that the great Image Orthicon tube was born. Enjoy and share this excellent 10 minute tribute to Mr. Farnsworth which includes rare color film of his 1939 experiments too. -Bobby Ellerbee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHy04aN0jfI

 

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3 Comments

  1. Eric Cooper September 8, 2016

    All the major TV stations here in Salt Lake City have their antennas on Farnsworth Peak

  2. Jeffery Haas September 7, 2016

    He was squeezed out and never profited from his lifelong dream.

  3. Jackson Douglas September 7, 2016

    lived to see tv from the moon