Jewish Invention Myths: The Colour Television
Sometimes jewish inventions are just… well… non-specific claims as is the case with ‘Boulder Jewish News’ publishing of Kathryn Bernheimer’s non-specific and unevidenced ‘list’ of so-called ‘jewish inventions’. (1)
One of these is the claim that jews invented colour television.
This as usual is complete and utter nonsense.
The historical reality is that Polish inventor Jan Szczepanik first patented a color television system in 1897, but it is now believed Szczepanik’s invention could never have actually worked as intended so he cannot be credited as the creator of colour television. (2)
It is now believed that the first inventor of working colour television was the Armenian inventor Hovannes Adamian who patented a working colour television in Germany and Britain in 1908 which he’d invented in 1907. (3)
The first successful colour television broadcast was performed by John Logie Baird on 3rd July 1928. (4)
There is no jew in that woodpile and I am a bit non-plussed about which jew Bernheimer is thinking of as the ‘jewish inventor’ of colour television as there aren’t any I can find!
References
(1) https://boulderjewishnews.org/2009/an-informal-list-of-jewish-inventions-innovations-and-radical-ideas/
(2) R. W. Burns, 1998, ‘Television: An International History of the Formative Years’, 1st Edition, The Institute of Electrical Engineers: London, pp. 97-99
(3) Albert Abramson, 1987, ‘The History of Television, 1880 to 1941’, 1st Edition, McFarland: Jefferson, p. 27
(4) Albert Abramson, 2003, ‘The History of Television, 1942 to 2000’, 1st Edition, McFarland: Jefferson, pp. 13-14