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Philo Farnsworth – Scientist of the Day

Philo Farnsworth, an American inventor and telecommunications pioneer, was born in Beaver City, Utah on Aug. 19, 1906.

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Борис Васильевич Зворыкин (1872-1942) - русский художник, график-орнаменталист и иконописец.

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Борис Васильевич Зворыкин (1872-1942) - русский художник, график-орнаменталист и иконописец.

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Борис Васильевич Зворыкин (1872-1942) - русский художник, график-орнаменталист и иконописец.

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Борис Васильевич Зворыкин (1872-1942) - русский художник, график-орнаменталист и иконописец.

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Happy Valentine's Day!! :D

My day was interesting so far. A good interesting :)

Starting it out by getting dunkin donuts! My favorite coffee place ever :D

Then went to work. I really love my job and the people I work with. A customer gave me a $5 gift certificate to McDonald’s. And like 3 other costumers called me beautiful. Which was ironic that they all kept saying that! It was so sweet :)

And then one customer tried hitting on me. And my coworker had to tell me to “go get some cups from the back of the store” so I could escape the awkward situation. The guy would not not staring at me! It was creepy!!!! Hahahaa great times ;)

And then my grandparents gave me Valentine candy 😋

[kidsneedscience]

Words have winners and losers, just like life, and also just like history: while Americans celebrate Philo Farnsworth as the lone eccentric genius who ‘invented’ television, the full story is far more complicated. This year marks the 86th anniversary of the first public display of color television. But it was Russian/American inventor Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin (Russian: Влади́мир Козьми́ч Зворы́кин - Vladimir Koz'mich Zvorykin) (July 29 [O.S. July 17] 1888 – July 29, 1982)) who invented the cathode ray tube that powered televisions and computer monitors for almost a century. Zworykin had mixed feelings about his creation, living long enough to see the some of the worst it could produce, saying finally that the 'off' switch was the best part of a television and that he would never let his own children watch it.

The word television itself was coined twenty years earlier in 1907 to describe the action of seeing by means of Hertzian waves or otherwise, what is existing or happening at a place concealed or distant from the observer’s eyes (courtesy Oxford English Dictionary). Like yesterday’s word, television was a mashup of both Latin and Ancient Greek roots: tele- from the Greek meaningfar or far off and -vision from Latin visio, visionem meaning act of seeing, sight, thing seen from the verb videre, to see.

To continue debunking the myth of Philo Farnsworth-since the advent of radio scientists and engineers all over the world were working singly and in groups and labs to create television. Farnsworth was in fact a child progidy, visionary and technical genius, and he does deserve credit for creating, two years after the Ives demonstration, a television with a true electronic basis. He gets (and deserves) as much credit as anybody for his contribution-but he wasn’t working in a vacuum. The race for television was as fierce and well funded as any of today’s chase for modern computer technology or new app!

Which brings us back to history’s other losers: the words that we do not use today to describe television, with word meanings in parentheses: phonovision (sound + vision), telephonoscope (far away + sound + sight), ikonophone (image + sound), telephote (far away + light), televista (far away + scene). Now we just call television the idiot box.  Check out the new improved sharing options courtesy of addthis.

Image of Vladimir Zworykin demonstrating early television in 1929 courtesy the Smithsonian Institution.

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The Invention of Television

No one person is credited with inventing television.  The credit as to who was the inventor of modern television really comes down to two people though: Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a farm boy from the state of Utah.  Zworykin applied a patent for the TV, the electron scanning tube, in 1923.  This electron scanning tube was called the iconoscope, and it was essentially a television camera.  Although Zworykin applied for this patent first, Farnsworth was able to successfully demonstrate the transmission of television signals before Zworykin.  Farnsworth had created the world’s first working television system in 1927.  So Zworykin created the patent for the TV, and Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the transmission of television signals to create the first working television system.  Zworykin is usually credited as being the father of modern television though.  At the time it was invented, television was a cultural revolution, affecting the lives of people everywhere.

Written by Austin Sottile for History Salon

Sources:

"File:Family Watching Television 1958.jpg." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 15 Oct. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Family_watching_television_1958.jpg>.

"History of Television." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 15 Oct. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television>.