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Old 11th Aug 2018, 8:24 am   #26
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Default Re: TV is a lot more modern than you thought...

TV is also a lot older than you'd think. Heinrich Hertz' experiments had resonant rings sparking across a gap when they received a signal. With light as the output, this was television! Admittedly of only one pixel, but you've gotta start somewhere. The size of his resonators put things in the UHF region as well.

So UHF TV came first.

JLB contributed the ideas of having more pixels, of organising them into a picture, of using a neon bulb as a more sensitive alternative to a spark gap, and of time sharing the same hardware amongst many pixels.

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