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A comment on John Logie Baird's Mechanical Television.

Re:John Logie Baird's Mechanical Television by TipVFL on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:15PM (#17990569)
Wow, this was really interesting, I had no idea there was a pre-Farnsworth television industry.

As I was reading it I was really expecting it to end with him being immediately destroyed by the introduction of CRT, but it was pretty inspiring to see that he embraced the new technology, learned from it, and built upon it.

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Re:John Logie Baird's Mechanical Television by nailer on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:00PM (#17992055)
Interesting. The TV awards in Australia (like the Emmys) are named after Logie, and he's cited there as the 'inventor of television'.
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