
John Logie Baird is often considered to be the inventor of television, but not of television as we know it. His mechanical television is a remarkable invention for its simplicity, but as you'll soon see, it would never have been all that practical.
Link to the video on Analog TV:
Links to various not-crap mechanical TVs:
And a video of a much larger, color mechanical television using mirrors:
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