25-11-2016, 06:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-11-2016, 06:32 PM by Mike Watterson.)
(25-11-2016, 01:42 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: Trevor's got the point I was making. Whatever Baird's technical weaknesses (which were many) he was the guy who pushed the BBC and this country into TV. Without his spur would EMI have recruited Shoenberg et al and set them to work on TV?
"What if" is impossible, but the "time" of TV had arrived. Perhaps it might have been two years later in the UK, but like Broadcast Radio became inevitable when hard valves were developed, and rebuilding after WWI, TV was inevitable. It was happening in USA, Mexico, Japan, Russia, Germany, France.
The BBC would not have wanted to be "left out".
It's impossible to say if Baird really helped or not. It's unfair to the real developers of TV and real Engineers to credit him with inventing TV or being an Engineer.
