Who invented television?
Although Campbell Swinton developed the concept, it was John Logie Baird
who made the first practical demonstration of television, using some of
the techniques pioneered by other workers.
A A Campbell Swinton
The concept of television scanned, synchronised and displayed by electronic means belongs back in 1908 to Campbell Swinton. His was the 'Distant Electric Vision' as his letter to Nature (18 June 1908) and subseqent lecture (1911) illustrated with circuit diagrams. This was to be the closest match to the eventual electronic systems in development in the 1920s and a practical reality in the 1930s. However, his concept of television (and it was no more than that) did not apply to today's television system - merely to the valve-analogue implementation.
The concept of television scanned, synchronised and displayed by electronic means belongs back in 1908 to Campbell Swinton. His was the 'Distant Electric Vision' as his letter to Nature (18 June 1908) and subseqent lecture (1911) illustrated with circuit diagrams. This was to be the closest match to the eventual electronic systems in development in the 1920s and a practical reality in the 1930s. However, his concept of television (and it was no more than that) did not apply to today's television system - merely to the valve-analogue implementation.
