#invemtion

[scotianostra]

January 26th 1926 saw was the first public demonstration of live television.

The face used to demonstrate it belonged to Daisy Elizabeth Gandy, the business partner of John Logie Baird, the Scottish scientist who is regarded as the inventors of the mechanical television. The mechanical television, also known as “the televisor” worked a bit like a radio, but had a rotating mechanism attached that could generate a video to accompany the sound. It preceded the modern television, which creates images using electronic scanning.

In 1924 Baird managed to transmit a flickering image across a distance of 10 feet and the following year, he had a breakthrough when he achieved TV pictures with light and shade. Within two years this flicker was the face of a woman who was in a different room.

The historic 1926 public display took place on January 26th, in a laboratory in Soho in front of members from the Royal Institution and a journalist from the Times. Although the pictures were small, measuring just 3.5 by 2 inches, the process was revolutionary.

“The image as transmitted was faint and often blurred, but substantiated a claim that through the ‘televisor,’ as Mr Baird has named his apparatus, it is possible to transmit and reproduce instantly the details of movement, and such things as the play of expression on the face,” wrote the reporter from the Times after the demonstration.

As innovative as the demonstration had been, the journalist wasn’t convinced that it would take off. “It has yet to be seen to what extent further developments will carry Mr Baird’s system towards practical use,” they wrote.

Still, that was better than the reaction of the Daily Express newspaper who, when Baird approached them with the invention in 1925, kicked him out. The news editor at the time said:

“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless!”

After the display, Baird continued to develop the mechanical TV and in 1927 he transmitted content across a 438-mile long telephone line between London and Glasgow. He went on to set up the Baird Television Development Company, which produced the first transatlantic broadcast and the first live transmission of the Epsom Derby. Baird developed colour TV and brought out the world's first mass-produced television set in 1929 and from then until 1937 the BBC used Baird’s company for its television broadcasts.

The mechanical TV didn’t last much longer, however - it was outstripped by the electronic television in the 1930s. This didn’t deter Baird, who continued to work in television innovation and eventually gave the first demonstration of a fully electronic colour TV in 1944.

Baird died after suffering a stroke on June 14th 1946 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex aged 58.

#scotland #scottish #history #television #invemtion

[portugals-conspiracy-theories]

@welcome-to-the-idk here

Sweden has an account on a certain payment site and makes videos assembling furniture

.......huh?

What site? And why would he be wearing a cropped shirt?

#uwgugd8ja9k #(i know what you mean i just think it would hilarious if i invemted a little cinspiracy about Port here) #hws portugal #hetalia #conspiracy theorist portugal #does portugal know? conspiracy #hetalia portugal #interaction #hws sweden #hetalia sweden #interactions #welcome-to-the-idk

[ascendandt]

re prev post including servants is one thing that pern gets extremely correct. ive really appreciated that the support end of weyrs and holds are always featured in the books

#not that the books are free from classism. in fact ms maccaffrey may have invemted new kinds of it for the series #but still. i like the representation of domestic labour and the clear understanding of its importance

[ihatebnha]

Ended up running into these at Walgreens and can I just say… whoever recommended them to me….. I hope your ass gets ATE

#they are so good I’m more than halfway thru the bag #THANK U FOR PUTTING ME ON #AMD THANK U CHICAGO ? FOR INVEMTING THEM #not writing #caitie thoughts

[arcanegifs]

Even though I surf the internet, I don't get what's rude about writing in caps... Is it really rude though? Who invemted writing in all caps means being rude?

I'm genuinely asking.

I don't think all caps is wrong, it's just that you're asking/requesting someone to make something.

All caps = screaming, so it was like someone screaming in your face demanding to make something.

#anon #answered

[dia-smthidk]

M!Au gives me so many ideas I already invemted three different metals-

it just be like that sometimes ykyk

#/silly #sona mafia au #dia-asks

[calebwittebane]

im fuckibg. migraine. new meds not helping. they really should invemt a brain thats not hurty. for women (im women)

[peepee-poopoo-lord]

they should invemt something like dying but better

#kelp blogging

[makedacostello]

By: Miss Makeda

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Fils Razors (Poem)

I invemted the Fils Razor (Poem).

It's actually Men's 6-Pack Triple Blade Disposable Razors but, I'm like using it anyway.

Their my favorite color red and like blue and or black.

Their also, Stainless Steel.

These razors also contain Vitamin E And Aloe.

You have to be careful that you don't accidentally hurt yourself on these razors by accident.

Everyday gets better and better when I like to shave sometimes or sometimes I look like a hairy little wolf.

[averagemafuyukinnie]

ena accidentally invemted nfts

#askss

[ascendandt]

they need to invemt a sports bra that you dont need to take off or wash.

[tomorrowillbeyou]

hes like if they invemted a girl who means the world to me

[pillow-monsters]

we sure did go downhilll after the wheel was invemted.

[literalnobody]

Every day... Every day I must reply to emails. Is it not enough that I check them

#text post #i wish... email was never invemted #i get so stressed

[vanibear]

KICK ARSE AND TAKE BUM!!! 

#my streamer once again invemting new phrases i will now overuse <3 #teddy content <3

[nefertittythegreat]

Nobody asked my opinion but this is the internet sooo......🤷🏾‍♀️

Im not excited for Rob Pattinson The Batman. Honestly its the exact opposite of everything I wanted for Live action Batman films going forward. Mind you this is off of the small teaser we got so who knows? I might stan this movie when I see it, but right now...

TL;DR I want more stories that were less dark and more substance, and a lot of comics and comic movies think that Dark is substance when its... not. I want something inbetween the happy zero stakes world of The MCU and the lifeless emo world we've created for ourselves since the Nolan movies(in comics and out).

And I know its possible but it just seems to be not what studios want to make....

#batman #The Batman #Rob Pattinson Batman #Bruce Wayne #DC Comics #DCEU #like i was so ready for older Bruce wayne #im so sad that we will never get solo Batflek #mostly because im tired of 25-32 Bruce Wayne #He 😴 #like thats why comics invemted robin but the movies still have caught onto the idea