When Was The First Television Invented?

The credit for inventing the modern television goes to two different people from two different places who were working at the same time. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, an American born in Russia and was working for Westinghouse Corporation in Pittsburgh. Philo Taylor Farnsworth was a farm boy from the state of Utah.

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin is usually known as the father of modern television because the patent for the electron scanning tube, which is supposed to be the heart of the TV was first applied for by Zworykin in 1923. The electron scanning tube was known as iconoscope.

But Farnsworth was the first of the two inventors who was successful in demonstrating the transmission of television signals, on September 7, 1927. This was done with the help of a scanning tube of his own design. Farnsworth received a patent for his electron scanning tube in 1930.

Although Zworykin applied for the patent in 1923, it was rejected since it was not functional. Zworykin was able to duplicate Farnsworth scanning tube only in 1934 and his patent was accepted in 1938.

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