What is a mechanical television?

Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is a television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture. read more

Mechanical TV uses rotating disks at the transmitter and the receiver. These disks have holes in them, spaced around the disk, with each hole slightly lower than the other. The camera is located in a totally dark room. read more

Mechanical Television The Russian Constantin Perskyi invented the word Television in 1900 at a meeting in Paris to describe devices that make pictures using electricity. At the time, many inventors were creating pieces of what we would now recognize as TV. read more