June 18, 1908: Prescient Letter Creates Concept of TV

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A Scottish electrical engineer publishes a brief letter in the journal Nature, describing the essentials of making and receiving television images. But it will take 40 years before the well-delineated concept finally achieves commercial success. Think twice before you throw away the silly idea you scribbled on a bar napkin: Almost all our greatest inventions were born on a piece of paper. In 1968, Alan Kay sketched out the idea of a lightweight tablet computer that children could use to learn programming, in a concept he called the Dynabook.

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