BACKGROUND
Before television was actually created, it had always been thought about by inventors. The telephone, created in 1876, began the want to transmit images just as a telephone transmitted audio. The first design of a television system was drawn up in 1884 by Paul Nipkow, a German engineer. (Feffer 551)
Paul Nipkow (Courtesy of wikimedia.org)
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin created the kinescope, a picture tube that would make the invention of television possible. With the kinescope he was able to overcome previous problems with a cathode ray tube. (Knight 603)
It was risky investment to fund Zworykin's research. As stated in this quote when he stated the costs:
Originally Zworykin told David Sarnoff that development of television would cost "about $100,000"; as Sarnoff later told the New York Times, "RCA spent $50 million before we ever got a penny back from TV." (Encyclopedia of World Biography 531)
Philo T. Farnsworth later came along in 1926 and created the first ever full working television set. His television set would spark the public's interest when he unveiled it to the world in 1928. (Encyclopedia of World Biography 386)
The creation and evolution of television was the collaboration of many great minds from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It was risky investment to fund Zworykin's research. As stated in this quote when he stated the costs:
Originally Zworykin told David Sarnoff that development of television would cost "about $100,000"; as Sarnoff later told the New York Times, "RCA spent $50 million before we ever got a penny back from TV." (Encyclopedia of World Biography 531)
Philo T. Farnsworth later came along in 1926 and created the first ever full working television set. His television set would spark the public's interest when he unveiled it to the world in 1928. (Encyclopedia of World Biography 386)
The creation and evolution of television was the collaboration of many great minds from the late 19th century and early 20th century.