"Thus, the French say both Belin and Barthelemy were the inventors of television; the Japanese believe it was Takayanagi; the Russians say Boris Rosing; the Germans either Nipkow or Karolus; the Hungarians von Mihaly; in the USA most people believe it was either Jenkins or Farnsworth; and in the UK we have the choice of Campbell-Swinton for the concept, or John Logie Baird for television's practical demonstration"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/resources/tvhistory/baird_bbc.shtml
"The 'money to develop it' would come from the sale of television sets (or as Baird called them 'Televisors'). However, there was a major snag. In order to sell the sets you have to have programmes to watch - a television service. Baird built a television studio in Long Acre (Covent Garden) and experimented with a small transmitter, but he soon realised that he needed a much more powerful transmitter to broadcast his programmes. The BBC had such a transmitter, called 2LO, situated on the roof of Selfridges in London. 2LO was used for daily 'wireless' programmes, but the BBC service closed down in the evening at about 11pm and often did not re-start until mid-morning. So Baird approached the BBC for permission to use the transmitter during these periods"
Eventually the BBC agreed that Baird could use the transmitter between those times, but the thing is for tele you need two transmitters so for the next six months he ran tv but with picture for so many seconds then he'd have to change to sound.
it all seems like a lot of hassle compared to how easy and fast it is to watch tv now.
In march 1930 the BBC had opened a second transmitter, and so simultaneous sound and picture transmissions began. 3 months later the first televised play happened, The man with a flower in his mouth. Produced by the BBC's Lance Sieveking.
The launch of the first High definition service in 1936 after the war, by this point BBC had taken over all of the tv transmission
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