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Television: Window to the World: With John Logie Baird, Alexander Graham Bell, Laurence Bergreen, Milton Berle. Modern Marvels looks at the history of television from its invention by Philo Farnsworth to its popularization by David Sarnoff.
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- 1999
- Documentary, History
- 48
Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
Television: Window to the World Aired on Oct 20, 1996 An exploration of the world’s most popular entertainment, from the boy genius who invented it to the RCA General who made it a...
- Setting The Stage For The Birth of Television
- Philo T. Farnsworth
- David Sarnoff
- RCA and Radio Box Memo
- Race For Television Heats Up
- Vladimir Zworykin
- Farnsworth's Failed Debut
- Mechanical Television
- Baird & Farnsworth Compete
- Patent Battles
In 1922 America, Ford's Model T sold faster than the factory could turn them out. Cities buzzed with the new-found power of electricity. Early technology was changing the way Americans lived with inventions like the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and wireless messaging. In 1908 inventor Lee De Forrest broadcast the first human voice from th...
On a remote farm in Beaver, Utah, teenager Philo Farnsworth was determined to decode the complex phenomenon of particle physics. At age 14, he presented a set of equations to his science teacher for projecting images over the radio.
At 14, this young Russian immigrant got a lucky break, landing a job as messenger at Guglielmo Marconi's wireless company. Sarnoff possessed a gift for promotion; he is credited with
In order to alleviate the crowded airwaves, then Secretary of State Roosevelt gathered the companies with a stake in the wireless phenomenon. RCA bought out the Marconi Company. David Sarnoff outlined a proposed broadcast of voice and music. The idea stalled.
Farnsworth went to work in secret on his television idea. He filed patents. Respected scientists were close at his heels. In 1920 experimental radio broadcasts began. In Pittsburgh, KDKA, America's first radio station went on the air. Broadcast fever had begun.
David Sarnoff had a lucrative position at RCA. Philo Farnsworth has competition, including inventor Vladimir Zworykin, who tried unsuccessfully to get Westinghouse to back his television research.
Both Zworykin and Farnsworth's televisions relied on tiny charged electrons scanning and then amplifying the image. Farnsworth set up a demonstration that included stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The demonstration flopped.
Successful inventor Charles Francis Jenkins had a reputation that put him ahead of the pack. He unveiled a version of television and broadcast an image of Herbert Hoover.
British Parliament voted to license Farnsworth's system after a successful demonstration. Cronkite remembers 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. He volunteered to have his picture
Vladimir Zworykin began working for David Sarnoff at RCA. Farnsworth got his patents based on the drawings he had made as a boy. RCA now needed Farnsworth's patents to further develop television and Sarnoff tried to intimidate Farnsworth without success.
Jan 3, 2007 · Interviews with media moguls and TV personalities, including legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite, provide an insiderís look at the huge industry TV has become. And broadcast pioneers recall the patent battles, competing systems, and relentless geniuses that defined the early years of television.
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Oct 20, 1996 · Start Streaming. Modern Marvels. S 2 E 25. Television: Window to the World. Oct 20, 1996 | 45m 19s | tv-g | CC. An exploration of the world’s most popular entertainment, from the boy...
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