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Always a pleasure to hear Mark tell the Story of Television, this time at a SMPTE meeting in Philadelphia.
Mark traces the Concept of Television back to 1877 and the 1876 Siemens Electrical Artificial Eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR-ixy1oZW8
Mark also discusses the pre-requisitives to the establishment of the Concept of television and the coining of the word Television in 1900 at the Paris World Fair.
Screenshot from Mark Schubin's presentation as published on Youtube
slides from the later NYC presentation adding another 1877 Eastern-European reference to the 1876 presentation on the Electrical Artificial Eye by William Siemens, based on his older brother Werner von Siemens work on the Photoconductivity of Selenium, the conversion of light to electricity.
A referenced article will be freely available from the IEEE in its March edition of its Proceedings.
Mark traces the Concept of Television back to 1877 and the 1876 Siemens Electrical Artificial Eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR-ixy1oZW8
Mark also discusses the pre-requisitives to the establishment of the Concept of television and the coining of the word Television in 1900 at the Paris World Fair.
Screenshot from Mark Schubin's presentation as published on Youtube
slides from the later NYC presentation adding another 1877 Eastern-European reference to the 1876 presentation on the Electrical Artificial Eye by William Siemens, based on his older brother Werner von Siemens work on the Photoconductivity of Selenium, the conversion of light to electricity.
A referenced article will be freely available from the IEEE in its March edition of its Proceedings.
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