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"Monsieur Dussaud is at present engaged in improving his system, and it is hoped that he will succeed in completing his experiments in time for the Exhibition to be held in Paris in 1900"
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I'm sure that deadline ran out. Even allowing for a direct-wired (cable?
) setup to count as "television" there just wasn't any way it could have been practically accomplished prior to the invention of the amplifying vacuum tube.
I'm in the Farnsworth camp myself. Props to Baird for producing the first picture by mechanical means, but more than a decade later, in a competition with EMI to determine British TV broadcast standards, he rose to the level of his own incompetence by refusing to envision a TV system that didn't somehow incorporate a motor.