become an accepted mainstay in other nations around the world.
Since the invention of television, many great minds have tried to answer this question. However, there's been much debate over who was the first person to invent television. Given the dubious nature of patents and copyrights in the early days of broadcasting, it's all but impossible to know for sure. For years, Russian inventor Vladimir Zworykin claimed that he was the one responsible for creating a functional model of a television based on iconoscope technology in 1924; however, researcher David E. Chalmers proved that the iconoscopes that Zworykin invented were never actually capable of working. This fact has led many to suggest that a Russian engineer named Iablotsky, who patented a similar system in 1905, was the true inventor of television. However, though he had been granted a patent in Russia, it was dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court due to non-compliance with U.S. patent law regulations (Zworykin got his patent on the same day) Although there have been many great
