Who invented television?

I have also heard that Philo T Farnsworth was the father of television, but John Logie Baird was definately first past the post insofar as patenting his ideas so He gets the credit, never heard of Zworykin though, so theres a measure of MY ignorance.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelevision.htm

Broadcasting Pioneers: The Many Innovators Behind Television History
Overview - Timeline of TV Development

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow - Mechanical Television History
German, Paul Nipkow developed a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884 called the Nipkow disk. This was the very first electromechanical TV scanning system. Nipkow's system was abandoned early in the history of TV for the electronic systems developed by later inventors.

John Logie Baird - Mechanical
John Logie Baird is remembered as being an inventor of mechanical television. Mechanical television, an earlier version of TV that was discontinued, was developed in late 1920s in England. During W.W.II, Baird developed the first color picture tube. Learn about Baird's mechanical television system.

Charles Francis Jenkins - Mechanical
What John Logie Baird did towards the development and promotion of mechanical television in Britain, Charles Francis Jenkins did for North America. Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923.

The History of the Cathode Ray Tube
Electronic television is based on the development of the cathode ray tube, which is the picture tube found in modern TV sets. German scientist, Karl Braun invented the cathode ray tube oscilloscope (CRT) in 1897.

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin - Electronic Television History
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin invented the cathode-ray tube called the kinescope in 1929, a tube needed for TV transmission. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin also invented the iconoscope, an early television camera. See the personal photographs of television pioneer Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin and his involvement with television history.

Philo T. Farnsworth - Electronic
The full story of Philo T. Farnsworth. Philo T. Farnsworth was the farm boy who conceived the basic operating principles of electronic television at the age of just 13 years. Learn about Philo T. Farnsworth and the "Television System." See the patent drawings of Philo T. Farnsworth's inventions.

Books on Television History
Books about the complete history of TV, early black and white, color, and digital systems. The evolution of studio cameras, video recording and broadcast equipment and the interesting biographies about TV innovators such as Farnsworth, Baird, and Zworykin.

Starting a bi before Nipkow ... [from Britannica, "television." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 10 Sept. 2007 , http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106102. ]

The answer to your question as to who invented the Television was in fact John Logie Baird (a Scotsman,) in 1926 but in the usa Philo farmworth said HE invented it in 1927 a year later than John logie baird,, if yous still interested put his name in your search box and you call find out all about him,,, Hope i was of some help Sprokit

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Ancient Hindu Puranas describe Doora Darsana Yantras (televisions)
in ancient India. Most of what the modern science invented were
available in ancient India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_ancient_India

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vimanas/vimanas14.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramhastra

http://doctorprasad.blog.com/

Great post Dagmaraka.