Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bhhc" 
<tawow@s...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > 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

Paul--

Your reply is full of errors.  Nipkow was not Russian. He did not 
invent the cathode ray tube. The cathode ray tube does not equal a 
television set. Presenting a concpet and building a working 
prototype are two entirely different things. 

Like it or not, whether you believe it or not is immaterial. The 
fact is in 1927, Philo Farnsworth was the first inventor to transmit 
a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines. The image 
transmitted was a dollar sign. Farnsworth developed the dissector 
tube, the basis of all current electronic televisions. 

Jay