and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who came from Utah in the US.
very poor quality.
do the same until 1934, although Farnsworth’s camera needed
too much light, and Zworykins method was better in the end.
The BBC bought Baird’s system and began regular test broadcasts
in 1929. They also tested an electronic system invented by
Marconi. In 1937, the BBC decided that the Marconi system was
the way forward and stopped using Baird’s system.
Zworykin and Farnsworth each worked for a different
company, and at around this time these companies fought in the
US courts about who invented television. Farnsworth’s company
won the case, and we should probably think of him as the real
inventor of TV.
The first person to invent color TV was either the Mexican
Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, or the Hungarian, Peter
Goldmark, who worked in the US. Most Mexicans will say it was
Gonzalez, but Americans— and Hungarians— say that it was
Goldmark. It is often like this with inventions.
Both men produced quite similar systems in 1940; they used
turning circles colored red, blue, and yellow. Unfortunately for
Goldmark, he worked for the CBS company, but most televisions
at the time were made by another company, RCA, and these
couldn’t use Goldmark’s system. RC A had plans for color
television too, but they weren’t ready at the time. W hen the
company did introduce color, in 1954, they used their own
electronic system. Gonzalez started the first television station in
Mexico and later sold television equipment to the US. Strangely,
both men were killed in car crashes, Gonzalez in 1965 and
Goldmark twelve years later.
In recent years, computers and the Internet have changed the
way we communicate.