trashleg said:
Sean Connery = James Bond. that is all. and if i remember my history lessons, dear Kantor, it was a Scotsman who invented the television (John Logie Baird) and yet another who invented the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell). i'll let it sink in before laughing at you |
Urban myth. John Logie Baird was the first person to invent the volumetric display and the first person to transmit TV in colour. He did not invent the TV though. The system he invented was ripped off from a man called Paul Nipkow, who invented the Nipkow disc used in Logie Baird's system. Also Logie Baird's TV system only lasted for a few years before it was replaced by Philo T. Farnsworth's Cathode ray system, the one we used for 60 odd years. Although TV was advanced tremendously under Logie Baird who was certainly a major TV pioneer, he did not invent it.
John Logie Baird also invented thermal socks though, and in some ways that is more important than TV.
