Kalman Tihanyi, Inventor of Electronic Television
 

Hi folks,

did you know that the Hungarian Kalman Tihanyi invented a fully electronic television system already in 1926?

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.ph...CTION=201.html

Kind regards,
Eckhard

Eckhard,

Thank you for this find. A Google search finds much more and even more genius. How about a flat-screen tv design from the mid-30's that could either be plasma or something resembling the Canon/Toshiba gun-driven phosphorescent design? All described as what we now know as pixels in design;

http://www.scitech.mtesz.hu/52tihany...anel_tv_en.pdf

Dave A