It was Sarnoff and RCA that suppressed the mechanical TV industry and basically stole the invention of the electronic TV so he could start his own industry. He didn't give birth to TV, there were TV broadcasts before this announcement.
The first *all-electronic* television system was demonstrated by Philo T. Farnsworth, at his lab at 202 Green St. in San Francisco. The key, missing invention that *all inventors*, worldwide, failed to deliver, prior to that moment, was a fully-electronic television camera. Even RCA's chief scientist, Vladimir Zworkin, was rejected by the US Patent office for attempting to patent a "non-working invention" in his struggle to support Sarnoff's ambition. Furthermore, John Logie Baird was a great inventor, but neither he nor BBC, nor German engineers ever advanced beyond mechanical scanning of images. For those who point to BBC's broadcasts in the thirties... that was not unusual elsewhere in the world, including the US. Los Angeles stations gathered same-day film from hundreds of local newsreel cameramen and used Nipkow discs to scan the film for radio transmission. Broadcast towers still stand on the hill, just behind the Hollywood sign, where those signals were transmitted.
The General Electric Broadcasting Company in Schenectady, NY had been working on television since the mid 1920's. They were able to "televise" the inauguration of Gov. Alfred E. Smith from the Capital in Albany, back to engineers in Schenectady in 1927.
Camaron, very true. A little digging shows RCA buying mechanical TV operations when they were already obsolete - eg Jenkins Television and the Chicago Daily News station - just to make sure there would be no further development, sales, or god forbid, programming. In fact NBC began telecasting electronically in late 1936 in what they were careful to call "field tests." As soon as DuMont began marketing sets (mid 1938), they shut the station down for a few months. That way RCA could have their official rollout on their own terms.
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It was Sarnoff and RCA that suppressed the mechanical TV industry and basically stole the invention of the electronic TV so he could start his own industry. He didn't give birth to TV, there were TV broadcasts before this announcement.
The first *all-electronic* television system was demonstrated by Philo T. Farnsworth, at his lab at 202 Green St. in San Francisco. The key, missing invention that *all inventors*, worldwide, failed to deliver, prior to that moment, was a fully-electronic television camera. Even RCA's chief scientist, Vladimir Zworkin, was rejected by the US Patent office for attempting to patent a "non-working invention" in his struggle to support Sarnoff's ambition. Furthermore, John Logie Baird was a great inventor, but neither he nor BBC, nor German engineers ever advanced beyond mechanical scanning of images. For those who point to BBC's broadcasts in the thirties... that was not unusual elsewhere in the world, including the US. Los Angeles stations gathered same-day film from hundreds of local newsreel cameramen and used Nipkow discs to scan the film for radio transmission. Broadcast towers still stand on the hill, just behind the Hollywood sign, where those signals were transmitted.
The BBC was broadcasting non-mechanical television in 1936. See the TH-cams of Alexandria Palace if they're still available.
The General Electric Broadcasting Company in Schenectady, NY had been working on television since the mid 1920's. They were able to "televise" the inauguration of Gov. Alfred E. Smith from the Capital in Albany, back to engineers in Schenectady in 1927.
Camaron, very true. A little digging shows RCA buying mechanical TV operations when they were already obsolete - eg Jenkins Television and the Chicago Daily News station - just to make sure there would be no further development, sales, or god forbid, programming.
In fact NBC began telecasting electronically in late 1936 in what they were careful to call "field tests." As soon as DuMont began marketing sets (mid 1938), they shut the station down for a few months. That way RCA could have their official rollout on their own terms.
so this is the guy responsible for jersey shore? j/k. great video - THUMBS UP!
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