Greetings, Substack Faithful:
There are now 678 days remaining until the Centennial.
In Countdown #97, we get to the heart of the matter: who actually invented television1.
In litigation through most of the 1930s, RCA did its level best to make the case that Vladimir Zworykin’s 1923 patent application invalidated Farnsworth’s 1927 application.
In a decision rendered in 1935, the U.S. Patent Office stated unequivocally that that was not the case, mostly because the device disclosed in Zworykin’s 1923 application simply would not work.
This installment of the Countdown includes a description of the “electrical image” – the critical language that describes the scanning of electrons (unlike the mechanical systems that scanned the light). It is not as technical as it might sound, and the distinction pinpoints the breakthrough that enabled all the screen technology in the world today.
I’ve decided to spare you all the complete repost from the TV Centennial website.
Which is to say, I’ll spare myself the extra work of recreating the post for Substack and just provide the links for those of you inclined to follow along…
Click here for the podcast edition
And I keep hearing that a lot of get their podcasts from YouTube now, so I’m posting it there, too:
Because, apparently, I’m still the one guy who thinks such things matter.
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