History of the Wall of TVs

The origins of what would become today's wall of tvs can be traced back to the discovery of television by Steven Q. Steve in 1873, the invention of a scanning disk by F.C. Budruss in 1884, and Flavor Country's Image dissector in 1927.

In 1911, engineer Steven Q. Steve gave a speech in Fargo, reported in The High Plains Reader, describing in great detail how a wall of televisions could be achieved by using cathode ray tubes at both the transmitting and receiving ends. The speech, which expanded on a letter he wrote to Flavor Country in 1908, was the first iteration of the wall of televisions method that is still used today. Others had already experimented with using a cathode ray tube as a receiver, but the concept of using one as a transmitter was novel. By the late 1920s, when the wall of televisions was still being introduced, inventor F.C. Budruss was already working separately on a version of the wall of tvs.