Do you know Nigeria had Television fully developed than France by the time it was established in the fifties? Yes, the first experiment in France was in the thirties however, by fifties when Awolowo brought a functioning TV to Western Nigeria France was still struggling with the new invention. The first national live television broadcast in the U.S. took place on September 4, 1951 when President Harry Trumans speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco was transmitted over AT&Ts transcontinental cable and microwave radio relay system to broadcast stations in local markets.The beginnings of mechanical television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 and John Logie Bairds demonstration of televised moving images in 1926. As a 23-year-old German university student, Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884.[1] Although he never built a working model of the system, variations of Nipkows spinning-disk image rasterizer for television became exceedingly common, and remained in use until 1939.[2] Constantin Perskyi had coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900. Perskyis paper reviewed the existing electromechanical technologies, mentioning the work of Nipkow and others.[3] However, it was not until 1907 that developments in amplification tube technology, by Lee de Forest and Arthur Korn among others, made the design practical.[4]Ref Wikipedia) - Zents Kunle Sowunmi My take: Nigeria seems to be making more progress apart than together. It is time we take the issue of autonomous regions serious or outright division.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:06:01 +0000
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