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Mechanical Television Leon Theremin
Was Leon Theremin, inventor of the Theremin electronic musical instrument, an early television inventor? Here are excerpts from a recent Facebook thread about this: Harry Moore: In the Soviet Union, Léon Theremin had been developing a mirror drum-based television, starting with 16 lines resolution in 1925, then 32 lines and eventually 64 using interlacing in 1926, and as part of his thesis on May 7, 1926 he electrically transmitted and then projected near-simultaneous moving images on a five foot square screen. By 1927 he achieved an image of 100 lines, a resolution that was not surpassed until 1931 by RCA, with 120 lines. Paul Lindemeyer: Visitors to Prof. Theremin's NYC studio early in the '30s saw COLOR tv on a receiver wired to a scanner pointed at the street outside. Harry Moore: During this time Theremin was also working on a wireless television with 16 scan lines in 1925, improving to 32 scan lines and then 64 using interlacing in 1926, and he demonstrated moving, if blurry, images on 7 June 1927. (from Wikipedia). Chris Long: Based on the Albert Glinsky text, in turn with few contemporary references that can be dated to prove claims. I would attribute a lot of this to Soviet era myth-making. Sounds like yet another example of the type of claim epitomised by Henry Sutton being "the Australian inventor of television", claiming that he "televised the 1885 Melbourne Cup to Ballarat". |
