A century (not out)

Opinion definitely varies as to the inventor - not least depending on what nationality you are and whether it's fully electronic television you're talking about (JLB's being electro-mechanical). A few months ago I was doing "Tightrope" (a 9 question multiple-choice quiz game I do on the phone which tends to have a US bias, as many of these things do) and one of the questions was who invented TV. JLB wasn't even on the list of options! (IIRC)
 
Black Hole said:
There was a programme about all this recently, BBC FOUR I think.
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There was. Like many technological advances multiple people and companies in multiple countries were trying to develop TV around the same time and much depends on how you define it who was first. Much the same applies to the first computer, light bulb, etc.
 
Similarly Ernie Wise was not the first person to make a mobile phone call in the UK. That honour goes to one of the tech team developing the system.
 
And it wasn't the Queen who made the first STD phone call from Bristol in 1958, nor Stan from On the Buses who used the first cash machine in Enfield in 1967.
 
And Ernie Wise didn't make the first UK mobile phone call in 1985. The son of Vodafone's chairman did a few hours before Ernie.
 
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