On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 04:51, CARTER Anthony wrote:
Televisions were invented in Britain...Doesn't mean that every tele has to start up with a union jack on its screen...huh?
Televisions invented in Britain? Only if you believe Charles Babbage "invented" electronic computers. What was more important to the Information Revolution? Babbages mechanical Difference Engine? Or the electronic silicon chip?
As for television, see the link below,
Key excerpt: “Zworykin had a patent, but Farnsworth had a picture…”
Both were Americans.
<http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm>
Many were involved in the development of the idea, including important British contributions, but the first working televisions, in the modern sense, that is electronic, not mechanical, were decidedly American.
And when they start up, they do not show the Stars and Stripes, I might add.
Not to start a peeing contest, but after the incredibly raw deal that Philo Farnsworth got in his life I can't stand by and see him bent over once again.
Marty