Television inventor : Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 -1971)

[calif1mc]

Way to go Southeastern Idaho!

[LordGeorgeRodney]

John Logie Baird invented the first tv transmission of a picture

no matter how primitive Baird got their first

Farnsworht invented nothing that had aleady been done before..

[farhatworld]

these inveters were sent by god,,,this is what i think,,,,

[PeterMWeller]

This should be called "Television innovator : Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 -1971)"

The first television broardcast was by John Logie Baird in 1924 in Britain!

[wendell3308]

America's mythic wealth wasn't built by rugged individuals-entrepreneurs. Was itstolen from them? From 1800 until about 1950, American economic policy, business policy & foreign trade policy resembled pretty much that of China today, collusion between "special Chinese entrepreneurs" & guv'mint? The Radio Co of America, RCA was 50% owned by the U.S. Navy from about 1919 until the mid-1930s. Some, but not TVs real inventor, got rich as a result of intense government-business cooperation.

[Starfighterking]

Great Man !!

[Nyaki101]

Yeah, The Damn Thing works! HAHA

[celebration81]

United Nations, UNESCO decided that who was the inventor the electronic TV. It was Kálmán Tihanyi

[sebwingfield]

Think of the scientific and technological progress that could be made if inventors shared ideas freely. And if school students were tought the cutting edge proprietary technologies so that they could build on them and not have to reinvent the wheel (or worse, be prevented from even using the wheel were they to reinvent it).

[sebwingfield]

It's a shame when large corporations either try to steal an independant inventor's patents or try to suppress the technology. What a waste if time, energy and money for the inventors who fight these legal battles. Tesla had so many ideas, and so little concern about money that he didn't let his patent battles with corporations and fanciers hinder his progress as much as the other independant inventors did.

[sebwingfield]

Farnsworth's battle with David Sarnoff/RCA over his TV technologies is very similar to Edwin Armstrong's battles with David Sarnoff /RCA over Armstrong's FM radio technologies. FM was superior to AM for things like music. So why didn't Armstrong become become rich? and why did it take so long for FM to become widespread? Because David Sarnoff prevented it. The pioneers of radio, Sarnoff included, also borrowed technologies from Tesla w/o necessarily giving money or credit.

[celebration81]

The main problem, that you know nothing about Hungary. Read the Hunary article in english wikipedia

[celebration81]

Hungarians are superiors in science and sport. Look the Olimpic Gold medals/population. Hungary is the best.

[celebration81]

According to UNESCO (United Nations) The first real electric television was invented by Kálmán Tihanyi. Only his TV patent is part of the famous "memory of the world"

[celebration81]

A Hungarian patented the first jet propulsion patent in germany in 1928. (Albert Fonó). Hungary had own radar system in ww2 (yes the germans copied many parts of it)

[celebration81]

Szilárd, with Enrico Fermi, patented the nuclear reactor). Other notable Hungarian inventions include holography (Dennis Gabor), the ballpoint pen (László Bíró), thermonuclear fusion and the theory of the hydrogen bomb (Edward Teller), and the BASIC programming language (John Kemeny, with Thomas E. Kurtz), Low level laser therapy or "light therapy" (Endre Mester), artificial blood (István Horváth), Rubik's cube (Ernő Rubik).[68]

[celebration81]

(Leó Szilárd): (nuclear chain reaction (therefore he was the first who realized the feasibility of an "atomic bomb". In August 1939, Szilard approached his old friend and collaborator Albert Einstein and convinced him to sign the EinsteinSzilárd letter, lending the weight of Einstein's fame to the proposal. The letter led directly to the establishment of research into nuclear fission by the U.S. government and ultimately to the creation of the Manhattan Project.

[celebration81]

mathematical tools to study fluid flow and mathematical background of supersonic flight and inventor of swept-back wings "father of Supersonic Flight" (Theodore Kármán), ramjet propulsion Albert Fonó, Turboprop propulsion by (György Jendrassik),

[celebration81]

(Ottó Bláthy) invented the Turbogenerator and Wattmeter, Telephone exchange (Tivadar Puskás), Ford Model T and assembly line (therefore he is the inventor of industrial mass production) József Galamb, Tungsten electric bulb (1904) (Sándor Just) and the krypton electric bulb (Imre Bródy), Electronic Television and camera-tube (1926) and Plasma TV (1936) (Kálmán Tihanyi), Vitamin C and the first artificial vitamin Albert Szent-Györgyi,

[celebration81]

Modern times

First electric motor (1827) and first electrical generator (Ányos Jedlik). David Schwarz invented and designed the first flyable rigid airship (aluminium-made), later he sold his patent for German Graf Zeppelin. Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri and Károly Zipernowsky invented the transformer in 1885.[70][70]

[celebration81]

Most famous Hungarian inventions

[edit]Old times

Steel spring (medieval), coach (medieval) and coach suspension. The English word "coach" came from the Hungarian kocsi, a wagon from the village of Kocs, Hungary,[69] the noiseless match (János Irinyi)

[celebration81]

Many Hungarian scientists, including Erdős, von Neumann, Leo Szilard, and Edward Teller immigrated to the United States. The other cause of scientist emigration was the Treaty of Trianon, that "little Hungary" amputated by the Trianon treaty was unable to support the large-scale costly scientific researches, therefore some Hungarian scientists made their most famous contributions in the United States.

[CapitanoGUC]

many of the US laureates where german too ....:-D

[celebration81]

Hungary is famous for its excellent mathematics education which has trained numerous outstanding scientists. Famous Hungarian mathematicians include János Bolyai, designer of modern geometry (non-Euclidean geometry) in 1831. Paul Erdős, famed for publishing in over forty languages and whose Erdős numbers are still tracked;[68] and John von Neumann, Quantum Theory, Game theory a pioneer of digital computing and a key mathematician in the Manhattan Project.

[celebration81]

The world's first institution of technology was founded in Selmecbánya, Hungarian Kingdom (today Slovakia) in 1735. Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is considered the oldest institution of technology in the world, which has university rank and structure. The legal predecessor of the university was founded in 1782 by Emperor Joseph II.

[2ndwar]

Philo represents a " giant" in the electronic discoveries, indeed, he was a genius. Best regards from Brazil folks!

[celebration81]

Sorry , he was not the inventor of electronic television. Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi invented the electronic tv. Check it!

[gluecement]

celebration81 -- Making a matter-of-fact statement like that is a bit careless. The development of electronic television is a complex subject, involving many subtle technological overlaps from different inventors. The reason most people attribute the invention to Farnsworth is because RCA eventually integrated the "Farnsworth Technology" into their systems, which ultimately became the standard in American broadcasting.

[celebration81]

Again, Farnsworth's system didn't contain the "charge storage principle", therefore it is not real ancestor of later camera tubes. Until this day all image sensor use Tihanyi's invention: the charge-storage phenomenon.

[CapitanoGUC]

Manfred von Ardenne was the MAIN father of TV ....!!!!!!!

[celebration81]

Germany was poor in inventions. He wasn't inventor

[CapitanoGUC]

what ???? are you kidding, or what ????? of course he was - everyone knows that !!!!! or better he was the most important father among Ferdinand Braun which developed the cathode ray tube and other. The early 20 century was govern by german inventions and german industry (artificial flavor and anilin color). It was this economical success which financed the world "la belle époque" after WW1

[celebration81]

Again, look the Nobel award / capita ratio. Germany hasn't good ratio. It clearly shows that germany is a copy-paste civilization rather than innovative.

[CapitanoGUC]

so what about the cathode ray tube, the book printing, the Protestantism, the TV, The Computer by Zuse, the anilin colors, the radar, the stealth fighter, the rockets, the theory of relativity and, the gas chamber and ,and ???

in Ungery they just invented the palatschinka ....:-D

[celebration81]

book printing is chinese (check it!) radar is american and british, germans didn't know the stealth possibility their Ho 2-29. rocket is chinese invention. Look the #Hungary article of english wikipedia. Our inventions were more important than german inventions.

[CapitanoGUC]

stop talking bullshit - the radar system was first developed by Christian Hülsmeyer in 1904 and got the patent number 165546

the brits where only the first, using it for air craft detection .... how stupid are you ????

[celebration81]

My uneducated friend". You know nothing about hungarian science. Don't write before the reading of the article

[celebration81]

It's no wonder that Hungary have higher ratio of Nobel award / population than germany britain or US.

[celebration81]

alfred nobel was swedish.

[CapitanoGUC]

ok - this one i take back ....:-/

[celebration81]

did you read the article?

[CapitanoGUC]

?????? what article ??????

[CapitanoGUC]

or was it for the famous hungarian salami (made of horse meat ...:-)

[celebration81]

As of 2009, 13 Hungarians (who were born in Hungary) had received a Nobel prize, more than China, India, Australia or Spain.[67] Further eight Nobel prize laureates of Hungarian origin on both sides were born outside of Hungary.

[CapitanoGUC]

but thats nothing compared to 57 french, 103 german, 136 british and 320 US-american laureates ....:-D

[celebration81]

again. Look only the SCIENTIFIC types of Nobel awards. Then compare them with the country populations.

[CapitanoGUC]

yes, yes ...:-D

[MrUnidyne]

The saddest thing about his appearance in "I've Got A Secret" was that it was his ONLY appearance on TV!

[vporcione]

Sarnoff (head of RCA) ripped off Farnsworth. He would have fit in perfectly with today's CEOs who've bankrupted the economy for personal/corporate gain. Farnsworth was a genius. Towards the end of his appearance on I've Got a Secret, he describes the Flat Screen HDTVs we have today. He also contributed much to nuclear fusion.

[moproducer]

@vporcione If he could have successfully battled Sarnoff and RCA in 1939, NBC-TV would probably be The Farnsworth Network. Sarnoff and Zworykin were absolutely disgusting criminals.

Farnsworth predicted HDTV in 1955, except his version had twice the resolution of current HDTV. He hated what the NTSC did to ruin TV's technical potential.

If we'd adopted his standards 50 years ago, we'd probably be watching large-scale 3D holograms by now. Once again, history's fat cats held us all back.

[RemoteTechnology2012]

cool.

[Inventore76]

Great Inventor..

[AcePilot101]

Philo Farnsworth is a truly great American inventor, electrical engineer and scientist.