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It seems like a bit of a stretch, an embellishment by historians perhaps, that the line-by-line scanning idea came from watching plowed rows of furrows. Line-by-line scanning (or "rastering") was already being done mechanically by flying-spot (spinning disc) scanners. Young Philo's epiphany, if there was one, had to be on doing the flying-spot thingy with an electron beam
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