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For what it’s worth, Philo Farnsworth and John Logie Baird were friendly with each other. I was lucky to know Philo’s wife Pem very well in the last part of her
by armadsen 8mo ago
For what it’s worth, Philo Farnsworth and John Logie Baird were friendly with each other. I was lucky to know Philo’s wife Pem very well in the last part of her life, and she spoke highly of Baird as a person.
David Sarnoff and RCA was an entirely different matter, of course…
- bovermyer 8mo agoThe article has a photo of a plaque putting Baird's death in 1946, less than 40 years old. What happened?
- roarcher 8mo agoHe was 57, born in 1888. Died of a stroke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird#Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird#Death
- ggm 8mo agoOne of his electro-mechanical units was on display in Victoria, Australia. Most amazing assemblage, you can sort-of get the idea from things. I read online that at his end, Baird was proposing a TV scan-rate we'd class as HD quality, which lost out to a 405 line standard (which proceeded 625/colour) There is also a quality of persistence in his approach to things, he was the kind of inventor who doesn't stop inventing.