 | John
Logie Baird. Mr. Baird was the most
prolific inventor during television's early years. A few of his many "firsts"
include: television of moving human faces, (1926); Infra-red television, (1926);
Television recordings, (1926/7); trans-Atlantic television, (1928); color television,
(1928); theater television, (1930); outdoor broadcasts, (1931). In later years
he developed the first color and 3-D, 600 line receiver, (1939). He continued
to regularly contribute to the advancement of television until his death in 1946.
Much of the time, Baird was way ahead of all the others. |
 | Philo
T. Farnsworth.
As a farm boy at the age of 15, "Phil" Farnsworth came up with his
idea of a complete electronic television system, the same system that continues
to form much of the basis for television to this day. Some twelve years later
in 1927, he produced the world's first all-electronic television picture. All
this while many "experts" in the field were using and promoting soon
to be obsolete mechanical means. |
 | Charles
F. Jenkins. Mr.
Jenkins provided one of the earliest demonstrations of practical television in
the United States in 1925. His demonstration consisted of the transmission and
reception of a slowly revolving toy windmill. He was a pioneer inventor in the
field of motion pictures and much of his work in television had to do with the
transmission of movie films into the home. |
 | Ulises
A. Sanabria.
At the age of 19 using a lens disk scanner, he demonstrated the first television
in Chicago. This was only four months after C. F. Jenkins gave his windmill demonstration.
He went on to form the Western Television Company, producing the first commercial
receivers to use interlaced scanning for which he held the patent. He went on
to build 24 television transmitting stations, all using the interlaced Sanabria
system. |
 | Vladimir
K. Zworykin Mr. Zworykin is probably best known for his work on
the Iconoscope. But he also deserves recognition for his important work on related
subjects such as photo-cells, cathode-ray tubes and the scanning electron microscope.
His work in television really began in 1923 and he soon recognized the limitations
of the mechanical systems. By 1930, he had turned his attention entirely to the
problems of electronic television. |