Television...Then and Now
Televisions have been the portal to entertainment and information for centuries. The television was once considered something that was pure science fiction, but was brought to reality by a number of inventors and scientist. The TV has evolved in many ways since its existence, from bringing you entertainment and news, to now allowing you to play today’s hottest video game consoles, searching the world wide web and enjoying a movie in a theater. The visual graphics have changed from poor black and white signals, to 3D television. The TV has changed in different ways, from shape, color, size, and the multi uses that it is used for. Televisions can be found all over the world, and all types of things can be televised, especially if you have cable or satellite TV. These are just a few examples of where television has been, what it is today, and what it can possibly be in the future. The television has evolved in many ways since it has been created.
It is safe to say that there is no specific inventor of the television, but collective ideas and inventions that inventors and scientist had come up with through out the years. Before 1925, the TV was something that was pure science fiction. In the 1870s, there were several scientist and inventors whom worked on photoelectric devices that turned light into an electric signal. In 1876 a German technician/inventor named Paul Nipkow had patented a rotating disc that could be used to capture and display an image using electricity. John Baird based his technology on Paul Nipkow's scanning disk idea and later developments in electronics. Although Nipkow had the patent, he never developed a use for the system, so the disc and the patent expired about twenty years later. No one was fully successful until 1925 when a Scottish man from England by the name of John Logie Baird and an American man named Clarence W. Hansell patented the idea of using different types of transparent rods to transmit images for television. Baird was
It is safe to say that there is no specific inventor of the television, but collective ideas and inventions that inventors and scientist had come up with through out the years. Before 1925, the TV was something that was pure science fiction. In the 1870s, there were several scientist and inventors whom worked on photoelectric devices that turned light into an electric signal. In 1876 a German technician/inventor named Paul Nipkow had patented a rotating disc that could be used to capture and display an image using electricity. John Baird based his technology on Paul Nipkow's scanning disk idea and later developments in electronics. Although Nipkow had the patent, he never developed a use for the system, so the disc and the patent expired about twenty years later. No one was fully successful until 1925 when a Scottish man from England by the name of John Logie Baird and an American man named Clarence W. Hansell patented the idea of using different types of transparent rods to transmit images for television. Baird was