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by arxpoetica 1161 days ago
Philo Farnsworth, an early television Pioneer, drew from this idea.

> A farm boy, his inspiration for scanning an image as a series of lines came from the back-and-forth motion used to plow a field.[1]

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Philo_Farnsworth