In 1926, TV Was Mechanical
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Nipkow never commercialized his electric telescope, though, and after 15 years the patent expired. The inset on the left shows how the televisor split an image (in this case, a person’s face) into vertical lines. In 1926, Baird loaned part of the televisor he used in his Selfridges demo to the Science Museum in London.
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