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Ashberto
09-11-2012, 11:54 PM
He devised a preposterous, lumbering contraption than just about managed to transmit a barely-recognisable image of a face, but it had little to do with the technology that would become television.

The real pioneer was Philo Farnsworth from Utah.

William Friese-Green wasn't quite the inventor of cinematography that his tombstone in Highgate claims either, sadly. http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/frown.gif

Classic Jorge
09-12-2012, 08:04 AM