• Flying Squid
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    12 months ago

    If you believe the story told by someone who claimed to know him in the documentary about him, Leon Theremin invented a form of closed-circuit color television in the 1920s.

    • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I mean you could “well actually” my comment because a couple images had been transmitted over RF by then. But in the sense of “could this random 3 year old have learned about the Titanic from the 11 o’clock news?” it didn’t exist.