MI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: My Favorite Husband, 1947 World Series, Larceny
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How old fashioned tv wprks: raster: shoots information rapidly across screen, luminance: brightness of spot, chrominance: color of the spot. Displayed issues that needed to be fixed in order to delvlop tv: between 1890-1920 people worked most on tv. Borris rosing: developed mechanical scanner with a reciever, francis jenkins, only american working on mechanical tv. John l. baird: electormechanical system using nipkow disk, basically invented tv, first publicly displayed tv 1925. Problems with ht enipkow disk: couldn"t spin fast, holes on disk weren"t small enough to show clear picture. Court decided that fransworth was the inventor of television. Broadcast television: fransworth made farnsworth television coporation, believed that tv should be available to everyone, nbc"s experimental tv station w2xbs first promotional broadcast was in october of 1937, worlds fair- 1939. Rca had a huge tent at world fair showing tvs. The enxt day, tvs were available in department stores. Early regulation of tv: communications act of 1934 established the fcc.
