1897 Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode Ray Tube dubbed "Braunsche Röhre"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenjiro_Takayanagi

'Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television"'

He presented it in 1926 (Farnsworth in 1927)

However father of television was this dude:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Ardenne

Better resolution, wireless transmission and Olympics 1936