Re:Ahem- John Logie Baird? (Score 2, Interesting)

John Logie Baird did invent the TV, and what's more he was one of the last lone scientists in a loft lab doing his own thing. However, his TV is nothing like the modern television (for which the Americans can reasonably claim credit for) it used a spinning disc with slits in it to selectively project an image on to various parts of the screen (the TV camera used the same system in reverse). In effect it was a mechanical TV, cool or what! In the UK dual signals were broadcast up until sometime in the 1940's I believe (don't quote me on that date I don't remember the exact one). Eventually, the signal for Logie Baird's TV system was switched off. One of the major prolems with his system was that the screen size of the TV was limited by the radius of the spinning disc - can you imagine a 36" widescreen version?!