Electronic television
Televisión electrónica
- Date
- 1927–1936 · confidence high
- Place
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Credited to
- Philo Farnsworth (image dissector, 7-9-1927); Vladimir Zworykin (iconoscope, RCA, 1923-1933); Kálmán Tihanyi (Budapest, 1926); Manfred von Ardenne (Berlin, 1931)
- People
- 👤 Kálmán Tihanyi1897–1947👤 Manfred von Ardenne1907–1997👤 Philo Farnsworth1906–1971👤 Vladimir Zworykin1888–1982
- Field
- Communication
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Fully electronic image capture and reproduction system using cathode-ray tubes, with no moving parts. The BBC (1936) and the Berlin Olympics (1936) inaugurated regular service.
Farnsworth won the priority lawsuit against RCA in 1934-35; Zworykin's iconoscope incorporated the charge-storage principle patented by Tihanyi in 1926.
What it led to
- Television as the dominant post-war medium
- Mass visual culture and television advertising
- Video surveillance, monitors and screens