Posted by jdemaris on November 22, 2010 at 06:39:51 from (67.142.130.27):
In Reply to: First Television posted by olddog on November 22, 2010 at 05:54:49:
My uncle Jack was supposedly the first guy with a TV in our town, around 1946. He was an electrical engineer for Bendix in New Jersey and we lived in a small rural town (Cresskill), just across the Hudson River from New York City.
He built it from an oscilloscope and would give "shows" to neighbors. They'd watch a show, while he had to stand behind the TV and fiddle with controls to keep it going.
Factory made TVs were available to the public in 1939 - but a TV cost almost the same as a new car. A good radio could cost $400, and a TV atttachement was another $200. There were many cheap new cars around for the same price, and a big Chrysler could be bought for $1000.
The first cathode ray tube made to work with images was invented by a Russian. A russian was also the first to coin the name "television" in 1900. Both of those guys left Russia and came to the USA. The guy that invented the first TV tube would not let his own children watch TV. Smart guy !
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