Who was the father of television?
Television was not invented all at once. Rather, the technological advances that made television possible occurred gradually, beginning in the 1890s. In 1897 German physicist (a scientist specializing in the interaction between matter and energy) Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) constructed the first cathode ray oscilloscope, a device through which electrons (negatively charged particles) were rapidly scanned, creating patterns of moving light on a fluorescent screen. The oscilloscope (later called the cathode-ray tube) was a precursor to the television tube, a fundamental component of all television receivers. In 1907, Russian scientist Boris Rosing proposed using Braun’s cathoderay tube to receive images. The images would be transmitted by a camera that scanned them using a mechanical, sequential method. In the following year, Scottish electrical engineer Alan Campbell-Swinton…
