He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system.

2021年6月29日 · In 1884, Paul Nipkow came up with a system of sending images through wires via spinning discs. He called it the electric telescope, but it was essentially an early form of mechanical...

2024年12月27日 · Philo Farnsworth, American inventor who developed the first all-electronic television system. He made his first successful electronic television transmission in 1927. Farnsworth’s later work included the fusor, a proposed nuclear fusion device.

2020年12月31日 · Learn about the history of television: how many people, working together and alone, contributed to its evolution from its early days to 1996.

John Logie Baird FRSE (/ ˈ l oʊ ɡ i b ɛər d /; [1] 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.

The Scottish inventor Alexander Bain introduced the facsimile machine between 1843 and 1846. The English physicist Frederick Bakewell demonstrated a working laboratory version in 1851.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the first television signal transmission on September 7, 1927 with his own scanning tube. A legal battle ensued in the late thirties, when RCA, the company Zworykin worked for wanted to claim the right to the patent (and the royalties).