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[CARTER Anthony]

Excuse me but:

http://www.hastings.uk.net/latest/stories/050502/baird.html

I know this cause I lived in hastings and in London Road there is a plaque on 
one of the building stating:"Television was born here"...

I quote:

Baird famously transmitted the first television pictures in a workshop above 
the Hastings Town Centre Queen's Arcade.

I quote from http://www.hastings.uk.net/famouspeople/logiebaird.html

"John Logie Baird was born in 1888, Helensburgh in Scotland. " and

"Baird filed a patent for his television design in early July 1923. It was not 
until 1924 that he had an actual working prototype. Dubbed the 'televisor', 
Baird had used an old tea chest as a base, mounted a motor and attached a 
home-made Nipkow disc, a cardboard circle cut from a hat box. A darning 
needle became a spindle, and a discarded biscuit box made a suitable lamp 
housing. Apart from the motor, his greatest investment was a few bull's-eye 
lenses bought for four pence a piece. Glued together with sealing wax and 
string, it was a precarious contraption, but it worked. In his room, he 
managed to transmit a silhouette of a Maltese cross two or three yards to a 
receiver. The image was beautiful to Baird, and proved his basic assumptions 
were correct."

And from your own site:

"Another player of the times was John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and 
entrepreneur who 'achieved his first transmissions of simple face shapes in 
1924 using mechanical television. On March 25, 1925, Baird held his first 
public demonstration of 'television' at the London department store 
Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. In this demonstration, he had not yet 
obtained adequate half-tones in the moving pictures, and only silhouettes 
were visible.' - MZTV "

But Baird's work was the first showing of a working model (although 
mechanical) of the principles of television...

Anthony



On Wednesday 23 April 2003 17:39, Marty Galyean wrote:
> 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