mechanical television

a television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, to both scan and reproduce the video signal
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mechanical television

Summary

mechanical television ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (322 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mechanical television is credited with the discovery of John Logie Baird[2].
  • mechanical television's subclass of is recorded as analog television[3].
  • mechanical television's subclass of is recorded as Television systems before 1940[4].
  • mechanical television's Commons category is recorded as Mechanical-scan television systems[5].
  • +1920-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of mechanical television[6].
  • mechanical television's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04wqv2[7].
  • mechanical television's Quora topic ID is recorded as Mechanical-Television[8].
  • mechanical television's Google Doodle is recorded as 90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television[9].
  • mechanical television's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777974602[10].

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Works and Contributions

mechanical television is credited with the discovery of John Logie Baird[2].

Why It Matters

mechanical television ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (322 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22d ago · Shahf14 · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception +1920-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Discoverer or inventor John Logie Baird
    Subclass of analog television, Television systems before 1940
    Inception
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q289]]"
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