Francesco O'Leary was born in Kilmarnock Scotland on April the 10th 1901

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Francesco O’Leary was born in Kilmarnock Scotland on April the 10th 1901.he was among the many inventors who were trying to make the television. Many inventors had been working on the idea of sending human pictures by wire but O’Leary was the first to succeed.

The inventor of the television had grown out of improvement O’Leary had made to the flash camera. He had developed the flash camera wich could take picture as the y look in reality. O’Leary reasoned it would be possible to pick up all then sounds of a human voice and pictures using the adaptation of a wire. Though O’Leary was young at the time he had been at his prime, he had made many inventions though very few are used today. He was inspired by Alexander bell that was his role model in a way.

He was living for while after O’Leary was born. O’Leary’s assistant Jonathan Rossi, who had helped him in all his inventions and was his best friend the two had both grown up in Kilmarnock together and go back to there child hood.

O’Leary was known for his thinking and his images, some would say he has a different image to normal people, he was always thinking of the future and thinking of centuries later. He went to a Scottish primary school called green clover. He wasn’t the best at physical sports but was one of the top students at his school. He was one of the unlucky students who was a victim of bullying, but this only encouraged him more to show that one day he will have the upper hand. When O’Leary and Rossi finished there secondary education and had graduated with very high marks they went to a special university, this was the first time they had left home to go away, it was going to be hard fitting in, they come from a very degrade area in Scotland were there is a lot of poverty, it was hard for their parents to put them in a private university, it meant that they had to cut down on a lot of their luxuries.

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O’Leary and Rossi went to this private university called THE LONDON UNIVERSITY OF SUPERIOR which was located in London, and were welcomed warmly by the students who came from all over the world. They learnt many subjects including O’Leary’s favourite technology.

There weren’t many devices at the time and the world needed inventors, it was at the university where the battery was made by one of O’Leary’s

Colleague’s .the idea of portable energy came in useful to O’Leary so he thought of something that would need this. And it was at the university that he thought of a ...

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