Who Is Philo Farnsworth

[Geist]

Hi All;
The only thing is that Maybe, I don't know for sure, From what I see in the video's is -- All He has was some old magazines, and He didn't know (at that time) about what others were doing, like Baird.. He at this time didn't know alot of what was going on in the world outside his farming community.. And I don't know and the videos don't say how old the magazines were, so there might, but there might not be anything about Mechanical TV.. I think it was a few years later, that He found out about Mechanical TV and as the video says He dismissed it, for electronic scanning.. About the Time He showed it to His Hight School Teacher and few years would have passed since his origional Idea.. And even if He did know about it, He still had to work out all of the electronics.. How many of Us can Take either a CRT or a Vidicon and make all the coils for it and the circuits for those coils.. I know and have read and seen about doing that, and would like to try it, But Even for my 10BP4 making my own Vertical and Horizontal and Focusing Coils would be difficult for me.. Even though I most likely have the wire to do so..
THANK YOU Marty

[Steve McVoy]

The story about the plowing has to be PR. Every radio magazine of the time had stories about Baird, including how he used a disk to accomplish scanning. Philo had to be aware of Baird's method.

It is unlikely that he was the first to understand that the same technique could be applied to a cathode ray tube, since CRTs had been around for some time.

[old_coot88]

There was one thing particularly intriguing in Farnsworth's 1957 'I've Got a Secret' dissertation. That was his foresight into improving bandwidth usage by "storing" unchanging/nonmoving parts of the picture by yet-to-be-invented compression technology.

[El Predicta]

Well spoken!