Kalman Tihanyi

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When TV Moved From Mechanical To Electronic

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12:00PM November 5, 2009 | Nick Broughall

It may have been Scotsman John Logie Baird who changed the world by broadcasting a moving image using his mechanical Televisor device, but a lot of the credit for the fully electronic televisions we watch today goes to Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi, who pioneered a fully electronic system and the development of the use of cathode ray tubes. More »