At first there were mechanical televisions, these sets appeared during the early 1800s. They mechanically scanned images then transmitted those images onto a screen. compared to the electric televisions, they were extremely basic.
One of the first mechanical televisions used a rotating disk with holes arranged in a spiral pattern. This specific device created was created by two independent inventors, a John Logie Baird and a Francis Jenkins in the early 1920s.
Prior to these two inventors, Paul Gotlieb Nipkow, who had developed a device which transmitted images through wires using a rotating metal disk. This device was not called a television, but rather, an "electric telescope". The device had 18 lines of resolution.
Two other inventors - Boris Rosing and A.A. Campbell-Swinton created a totally new television system in 1907 by combining a cathode ray tube with a mechanical scanning system.
The early efforts of these inventors would eventually lead to the creation of the worlds first electrical television a few years later.
Electrical Television
21 year old Philo Taylor Fransworth began to think of a system that could capture moving images, transform those images into code, and then move those images along radio waves to different devices. Fransworth's system captured images using a beam of electrons (like a primitive camera)
The first ever image ever transmitted by television was a simple line. then, Fransworth would famously transmit a dollar sign using his television after an investor had asked him,"When are we going to see some dollars in this thing, Fransworth?"
Between 1926 and 1931, mechanical television inventors would continually tweak and test their creations. By 1934 all TVs had been converted into the electronic system.
All the early television systems transmitted in black and white, however, colour TV had been theorised way back in 1904.
How Electronic TVs worked
Electronic televisions relied on a technology called a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) as well as two or more anodes. The anodes were the positive terminals and the cathode, the negative terminal.
The "cathode" piece of the Cathode Ray Tube was a heated filament enclosed in a glass tube known as the "T" of CRT. The cathode would release a beam of electrons into the empty space of the tube which was a vacuum.
All of these released electrons had a negative charge and would be attracted to positively charged anodes. These anodes were found at the end of the CRT, which was the television screen. As the electrons were released at one end, they were displayed onto the TV screen at the other end.
Firing electrons against a glass screen doesn't produce images. To produce images, the inside of the TV screen was coated with phosphor. The electrons would paint an image on the screen one line at a time.
To control the firing of electrons, CRTs use two "steering coils". Both steering coils use the power of magnets to push the electron beam to the desired location on the screen. One steering coil pushes the electrons up or down, while the other pushes them left or right.
Colour TV
Colour television goes as far back as 1904 when an inventor received a patent for colour television, but that inventor didn't actually have a working colour TV - it was just the patented idea.
A conceptualised version then appeared in 1925 by a Vladimir Zworykin but his efforts were unsuccessful and the project was put on hold for about 20 years.
1946 came and the colour television war began.
Many corporations have used the device as a way to manipulate the human mind and create unsatisfied consumers who search for instant gratification. We are being hypnotised from the very moment we are born, hypnotised to believe that the society conveyed on the screen is in our favour, that it is for our own good. This is wrong. We are hypnotised to think we need all these materialistic and superficial things. Hypnotised to focus on money, power and prestige. Anyone and anything outside of this is considered crazy and is written off.
C O L L E C T V E T V has the aim of changing/shifting this mindset by offering more informative and "crazy" viewing to cultivate a more conscious viewer. C O L L E C T V E members should join the conscious movement by creating content that will stimulate the mind and bring joy to the society whilst staying true to ourselves and our aspirations.
LETS MAKE TV A BETTER PLACE ONE VIDEO AT A TIME.
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