24-11-2016, 11:45 AM
Baird raised awareness, but otherwise his only significant contribution was the near real time film camera + scanner. He was perusing Victorian techniques in a clueless manner while others working on electronic display (CRT wasn't a problem and existed in essence before Baird did anything) and the more difficult problem of the camera target.
The Russian and German work is often ignored. The USA makes much of Philo Farnsworth, who had more clue than Baird, though his camera was a technological dead end because as you double resolution it's half as sensitive (or worse) each time as there was no charge storage.
The main western development was RCA/EMI (historically related via both Victor Talking Machine/HMV and Marconi), based on Russian work.
Philo & RCA were following the A.A. Campbell-Swinton vision. Baird was a hardly educated entrepreneurial less successful version of Edison, tinkering. The Baird company eventually sent him home.
The Russian and German work is often ignored. The USA makes much of Philo Farnsworth, who had more clue than Baird, though his camera was a technological dead end because as you double resolution it's half as sensitive (or worse) each time as there was no charge storage.
The main western development was RCA/EMI (historically related via both Victor Talking Machine/HMV and Marconi), based on Russian work.
Philo & RCA were following the A.A. Campbell-Swinton vision. Baird was a hardly educated entrepreneurial less successful version of Edison, tinkering. The Baird company eventually sent him home.
