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Broadback wrote:
I believe that TV was first run by a Russian, not Baird as
we always thought.

TV as we know it has little to do with Baird.


Isn't Baird's claim to fame the fact that he was the first person to
*demonstrate (and transmit?) TV*?

Quite often, who was first to achieve something depends quite a bit on how
you define what they were first at. A mechanical TV system, in principle
very much like the Baird system, was demonstrated by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in
1884. Of necessity, his pictures were transmitted by wire, so he could be
classed as the father of cable TV.

As you say, the modern television system has far more in common with the
all electronic system being invented around the same time by a young
American farmers son - can't remember his name though - than Baird's
electro-mechanical system.

Philo T Farnsworth, although Vladimir Kosma Zworykin is also an important
pioneer of modern television.

Colin Bignell