The 90th Anniversary of TV is today

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Since I'm the one who's fallen in love with the telly for the first time again since 1996, that I'd be the one to share the news. Today is drum roll....trumpet....the 90th Anniversary of Television. Happy Birthday Television!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/g ... -1926.html

Now the theme song to my favourite show.





I'm intelligent enough to cut and paste. *Snicker*

(Applause) That means 2026 is the 100th anniversary!

In Britain, the first commercial TV broadcasts occurred around 1936 (I believe the US started a bit later).

What's amazing to consider is that until about 5 years ago, when broadcasting switched to digital, a television set manufactured in 1936 should theoretically have still be able to receive broadcasts, were it in working order. Think of that in terms of how dramatically technology advanced during the same time period.

There still seem to be a few analog TV broadcasters in the US although there weren't supposed to be by now. It would be interesting if one could locate the oldest still working set in the US and see whether it can still receive a signal.

Happy 90th. Without TV, I wouldn't have gotten into anime, game shows, or even SPORTS! Sports and TV go hand-and-hand together.

^And all those other TV shows, too! Awesome! (High fives Johnny)

My grammar is really bad right now. I haven't been on WP, steady for a year so you really have to bare with me.

While it was Scottish inventor John Logie Baird who had given the world’s first public demonstration of a working television system in London in 1926, using an electro-mechanical imaging system, and who was seeking to develop electronic television receivers, it was Utah inventor Philo T. Farnsworth ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth ) who succeeded in 1927 with 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[.]”

I guess it depends on how one sees the invention of the television or the invention of the “kind” of television still used today ... to determine which of the two men was the inventor.

I got to live for a few years in the house that was once the residence of Farnsworth. While I and the current owner searched and searched, we found no evidence of Farnsworth’s invention in the house. Too bad, but it did get me interested in his life.

I learned that Farnsworth ended up hating his invention because he saw it being used to brain-wash the public.

Colonel klink-Nothing ever goes right for him, thank you Hogan.

For us here in Australia TV started in 1956 and colour TV started in 1974.