You can support this channel on Patreon! Link below John Logie Baird is often considered to be the inventor of television, but not of television as we know it. His mechanical television is a remarkable invention for its simplicity, but as you'll soon see, it would never have been all that practical. Link to the video on Analog TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UgZBs7ZGo Links to various not-crap mechanical TVs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GYGxEk0btA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llP-uy2rzKE And a video of a much larger, color mechanical television using mirrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDzmPBzbgwE You can support Technology Connections on Patreon! Find me here: https://www.patreon.com/technologyconnections Image credits! Random apartment building: https://res.cloudinary.com/apartmentlist/image/upload/t_fullsize/a42f36754d6bb34c4518223446a2dc21.jpg Images of the Pantelgraph early facsimile system are used under Creative Commons attribution with the following copyright holder: CC BY-SA 4.0 | 2012 | Alessandro Nassiri | Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano All other images are either free of copyright, or are in the public domain.