NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Edwin Howard Armstrong
2 Feb 2012
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The success of the television is attributed to the 1950s, although there were experiments being done. John baird - his system was based on a mechanical output and not an electronic based system. There is some debates over the inventor of the television, because there are many systems involved, and there was such a distinction between the process of invention and the process of becoming commercially successful. Because of this, only two people are really attributed with the development of the television: zworykin, a worker for rca, and a 14 year old farm boy named farnsworth. Zworykin was the first person to attempt to patent the rights for the system for television in 1923. This was initially rejected because this system did not work. He went to visit farnsworth in san francisco. Farnsworth shared all of his knowledge with zworykin, not knowing that he worked for. He immediately went and successfully patented the new system.
