By the time television became a household appliance, the name of its inventor was sufficiently lost to the public that he could appear on a TeeVee game show in 1957 and not a soul would recognize him.
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I am related to Philo Farnsworth
hes my Great, Great, Great uncle
@SaveTheCroissants: Well, HDTV is 1080 lines. Though usually its actually only 720…!
But he didn’t invent television!
Scotsman John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was the first person to demonstrate a working television system – on 26th January 1926, using mechanical picture scanning with electronic amplification at the transmitter and at the receiver. It could be sent by radio or over ordinary telephone lines, leading to the historic trans-Atlantic transmissions of television from London to New York in February, 1928.
Only people like this that actually did something useful should be famous
dose anyone notice how smart all of the people are compared to people today?
@romulusnr:
He probably just assumed everyone already knew how to do something that _simple_. {Smiley Face}
—Jacob
Right at the end, He’s says he’s working on making TV’s with an excess of 2000 lines. That’s HDTV.
Also he says he’s trying to make just a screen with the picture pasted on, that’s a flatscreen.
And then, as if that wasn’t enough, he just casually drops the seed for digital cameras.
This man was amazing!
—Jacob
@romulusnr You’re confusing RCA’s consumer products with the broadcast arm of RCA. Both are owned by GE. While you are correct about RCA’s consumer products, the broadcast side is still very much the legacy of Sarnoff…you can’t ship that overseas (at least, not yet). And it’s still at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
@TheOptimusprime9 After suffering through countless bullshit “And I’m A Mormon” episodes on Y-Tube, I see that finally one makes it for real…
@moproducer well, at least, RCA isn’t exactly around anymore. Not really, beyond just a brand name. Most RCA stuff these says is rebranded Japanese generic electronics.
@thebestanthe3rd On the other hand, he spent his time trying to invent even more things, rather than trying to become famous. Some people actually value contribution more than celebrity (which are diametrically opposed).
“We’re hoping to make television where the display is just the screen.” LCD.
“We’re hoping that we can add memory and just paste the picture there.” E-Ink.
“2000 lines instead of 525, in a smaller channel.” Well, HDTV is 1080 lines in a much smaller channel. Not quite 2000 yet although they are working on it — although “they” is the Japanese, not the US, sadly.
Also, I was surprised he didn’t mention color television!
i feel bad for this guy he invented something every american uses and then fades away and receives no credit?he died with depression and didnt want any one to say the word television because it was so popular and he was a nobody.makes me wanna punch other people in the face..
@usernameregrets I have seen a couple of years ago, 8K and 22.1 surround sound.
So, the man who invented television gets wins $80 and a carton of smokes, while buffoons like Al Gore and Obama win Nobel Peace prizes worth $1.4 million each? No peace, but at least we’ve got TV.
Cave Johnson here.
So, Jersey Shore is his fault.
@driver49 you heard what the man said most people didnt
@Teflon65 me too, even the advertisements seem very similar (though they might have all been)
@Gydinglight12 i can’t put links in the comment box, but it is one of the first suggested videos on the side-bar, uploaded by “GiveMeBlackandWhite”
@NONSENSEchannel dumbass its 1957
As interesting as this – while watching it I have an unusual craving for a Winston cigarette…
check out 6:20, he’s literally talking about high definition. took them long enough haha
@bobjfs – Steve deserved nothing but the best – and he got it!
@moproducer you got that right. they also stuck it to Armstrong, the fella who invented FM Radio and Short Wave and other things. Armstrong spent years fighting RCA and Sarnoff over patent rights.
No, he is not working on an H bomb. He was working on CONTROLLED nuclear fusion – yes, the same nuclear reaction as an H-BOMB, but NOT an explosive release. If a fusor malfunctions, you lose the vacuum and the reaction stops. Read a book. Get a clue.