MC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Asteroid Family, New York City, Vladimir K. Zworykin
27 Jan 2015
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1/26/15 10:40 pm: pioneering experiments on sending pictures by radio began in several countries just after world war i. The earliest attempts made use of a revolving nipkow disk, a mechanical system that created a scanning effect when used with a beam of light. It was not until electronic scanning was developed that television became practical. The first patent for an electronic television system was awarded to philo t. Farnsworth, an obscure inventor who had worked out the basic design while still a high school student. He had little funding, built a working model in an apartment in. L. a. , and beat vladimir zworykin, of westinghouse laboratories, in a court battle, which he won: by 1932, a transmitter was installed in the empire state building in new york city, new. Regular transmissions began on a limited basis in 1936, with two broadcasts per week.
