Digital BW, The Print

> Actually, television was invented in the United States by a very young man
> named Philo T. Farnsworth, just for the record.
>
> Jay

If one believes in "urban" or perhaps in this case "country" myth. The first
cathode tube was invented by a Russian, Nipkow, in the early 1920's, then a
Scotsman by the name of Baird (the same or the following year as Nipkow's
discovery), presented a mechanical version of the concept of TV. The
Farnsworth story is cute, but there is very, very little to back it up
rather than a lot of heresay.

Regardless, whoever invented it, it has become the world's largest garbage
can as opposed to a "medium" of communication.

Paul Aparycki