Strange as it may sound, the first televisions were mechanical contraptions. Basically, they had a mechanical spinning wheel with holes that scanned an image and converted it into transmission device and a ‘televisor’ on the receiving end with a spinning wheels with holes that allowed for a display of the object. Pretty simple, huh. Not really. Through a number of experiments, a working prototype was developed in the late 1880s by a 23 year old German student.
Can you just imagine what it would be like today if we had mechanical TV? The scanners were huge and the receivers were just about as big. When connected you could see a still image on a very small screen. That translates to no 24/7 football games.
I can only imagine what it was like in the early days of broadcasting images. We’ve come a long way.
But I do wonder, since the devices were mechanical, how often you had to change the oil.
PMO
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