Did ya know--TELEVISION! (experience, worship, Mormon)

[Bishka]

How many of you enjoy the television? I'm sure many of us do, and there may be some that 'worship' it.

Did you know that the inventor of the televiosion Philo Farnsworth, was a Latter-day Saint(Mormon)?

http://www.adherents.com/people/pf/P...arnsworth.html

Just your random fact for today.

[LongGe123]

hang on a second - I thought the inventor of the television was that guy from Scotland - John Logie Baird, or something like that.

[Fluffy]

hang on a second - I thought the inventor of the television was that guy from Scotland - John Logie Baird, or something like that.

From Wikipedia:
"The origins of what would become today's television system can be traced back at least as far as the scanning disk of Paul Nipkow of 1885."

But also:
"While electromechanical techniques were developed extensively prior to World War II, most notably by John Logie Baird, all-electronic television systems relied on the inventions of Philo Taylor Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin and others to produce a system suitable for mass distribution of television programming."

I rarely use my television. I rarely watch more than one show a week which, at the moment, is Green Wing on a Friday evening. However, I watch a lot of TV on my computer such as Lost and Desperate Housewives where the ad breaks would otherwise kill the experience for me.

[randb]

Einstein was extremely religious too

[willything]

i dont care who invented tv. i just wish they couldve put a bad show lock on when they did.

[michel]

I don't love T.V. I mostly enjoy documentaries on animals, wildlife and National Geographic (and news) though the 24 hr news channels get boring when they repeat (which is normal).