Why didn't Baird pick up on this??? ;-)

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Why didn't Baird pick up on this??? ;-)

Postby gary » Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:09 pm

Last edited by gary on Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Why didn't Baird pick up on this???

Postby Andrew Davie » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:23 pm

That was fascinating!
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Re: Why didn't Baird pick up on this???

Postby Klaas Robers » Mon Mar 13, 2017 3:15 am

The amount of light was so low, that for Baird this was not wise. Even the neon plate lamp gave so little light that you need to look at it in total darkness.

Realize yourself that we had for tens of years LED's that gave just light enough to indicate that some circuit is on or off. It is rather recent that LEDs were developped that gave enough light to read the newspaper.

On the other hand, it is very likely that a diode emits light when you sen d a current through it. Normal silicon diodes are giving light so far in the IR region that nobody has ever looked at it.
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Re: Why didn't Baird pick up on this???

Postby gary » Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:54 am

Indeed Klaas, there is a great deal of good old Anglo-Saxon "tongue in cheek" in the title. ;-)

(I have added a wink smiley to the title to avoid any confusion ;-)).

Captain Henry Joseph Round was an exceptional engineer BTW, worth looking up.
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Re: Why didn't Baird pick up on this??? ;-)

Postby gary » Fri Aug 25, 2017 6:29 pm

...and he could have driven them with a FET too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Edgar_Lilienfeld
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