Digital BW, The Print

Whenever you see an entry vis-a-vis Farnsworth (boy genius?), they always start,"legend has it" as regarding his supposed description to his school class. Not the stuff that is very concrete I am afraid.

Nipkow was a Russian who demonstrated a "scanning disc" system, the basic concept (scan) of television. Baird built the first "mechanical" concept. Without those the farm boy wouldn't have had the impetus to carry on with experiments. Further, when Swinton (Brit) and Rosing (Russian) had seen Nipkows "disc" system . . . the route which Baird followed, they decided to go the route of developing the cathode ray tube. Zworykin, a student of Rosing, worked on the principal when he was at Westinghouse and ultimately did create a rudimentary system later though there is much arguement about Zworykin "stealing?" the idea (probably true).

Swinton and Rosing's work  was in 1906. Maybe you count the dates backward in the US, but Farnsworth applied for his patent for a cathode ray tube in 1926-28 (oddly enough no one has the exact date . . . though the date in the patent office IS 1927)  . . . by the rest of the world's time line, twenty (20) years later. Further, if you insist that it wasn't the cathode ray tube, don't argue with me about it . . . maybe you can raise Farnsworth from the dead and tell him HE was wrong?, not you.

Paul Aparycki
  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

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