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squigs t1_iyero5o wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:16 PM

Reply to comment by ucanttrustapenguin in TIL The inventor of the television was a 15 year old farm boy who got the idea for scanning an image in rows from the back and forth motion of plowing a field. by chapstickninja

Yes. Baird was first. His technology was ultimately a dead end so Farnsworth deserves a certain amount of recognition, but not as "inventor of television".