Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: ukpoit!alan@relay.eu.net (Alan Barclay) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Some Amplification on Color TV and FM History Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 00:16:12 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office Lines: 16 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 171, Message 7 of 10 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu In article 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E. Kimberlin) writes: > Credits for the first color televison date to a Scot, Charles >Baird, in 1927 experiments to produce color images by mechanical >scanning methods. Baird was expanding on 1880's work that began with >Senlecq's lab work on the photoelectric properties of selenium and >Nipkow's development of image scanning with a perforated rotating >disk. (In fact, there is some history showing facsimile by purely >electric means dates to about 1847.) It was actually John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, who also invented colour televison, and it was because he was working on the colour system at the time of the first experiments in broadcast TV that Baird's system was not adopted as the B/W broadcast system.