Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Campestre is a municipality located in the south of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population is 24,481 and its area is 54 kmÂ².
Also, there was Philo Farnsworth, a west-coast inventor whose first demonstration of television was in 1927. Like Baird's system, it was electro-mechanical, but by 1929 he had eliminated the moving parts of his system to create the world's first fully electronic system.
| Filed Under: Firsts 11 Comments. The Television was invented a lot earlier than you might think. The first electrically transmitted TV pictures were the work of J.L. Baird, who built his first TV system in 1926. J.L. Baird was Scottish, and was born in Helensburgh, Scotland.