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Milo Farnsworth
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Philo T. Farnsworth is credited in the USA as having invented the TV. There were too many people involved in the development of various aspects of the system, for it to be credited to one person. Farnsworth developed the image detector and the electronic scanning system similar to what we use today. The person who actually first sent moving pictures over radio waves, to the public was Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird. Although he proved the principle and usefulness of televion, his system was largely mechanical and bares little relationship to what we watch today.
Vladimir Zworykin (1888-1982) was a Russian-American scientist and inventor. Along with Boris Rosing, he developed and patented a cathode-ray system for broadcast television in 1907. Moving to the US in 1918, Zworykin patented several TV devices including the "kinescope" TV receiver in 1929.
john Logie Beard
TV was invented in Hastings and London, England, by Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird. Proof of concept was established and actual live transmissions made , but the final system adopted was nothing like Baird's mechanical system. An electronic system was used and pioneered by EMI, from original work by American inventor Philo Farnsworth.
John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer, innovator and inventor. He invented the world's first mechanical television, the first color television system the first color television picture tube.
Roger L. Easton, Sr. (1921-2014) was a US scientist. He was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Philo Farnsworth was an American inventor who is best known for creating the first fully functional all-electronic television system. He obtained his first patent for an electronic television system at the age of 21. Farnsworth's invention paved the way for modern television technology.
Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes.
This was actually known to the ancient Greeks. In more modern times, Copernicus is credited with this idea.
John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system. For more information see Related Links below.