Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Geez, how long have i had this blog? i dimly remember i may have written about farnsworth once.
not the restatement of contracts farnsworth who died today, but philo t farnsworth, inventor of the television. it's a heck of a story. idaho plowboy, about 1915.
and he's about 15. in his spare time, he reads einstein on relativity. he has the mules hitched up and he's plowing the field when it hits him. what if he could get a stream of electrons to go across a screen like a couple of mules plowing a field? only faster.
the resulting pixels could paint a moving image on the screen.
so, like, ten years later he has a working model and goes to get a patent, and sets off to try to find somebody to manufacture the thingy. and somebody else steals the idea and the glory, and david sarnoff ends up rubnning the show, and tv turns into a monster, and farnsworth dies a bitter broken man. it would make a heck of a movie.
not the restatement of contracts farnsworth who died today, but philo t farnsworth, inventor of the television. it's a heck of a story. idaho plowboy, about 1915.
and he's about 15. in his spare time, he reads einstein on relativity. he has the mules hitched up and he's plowing the field when it hits him. what if he could get a stream of electrons to go across a screen like a couple of mules plowing a field? only faster.
the resulting pixels could paint a moving image on the screen.
so, like, ten years later he has a working model and goes to get a patent, and sets off to try to find somebody to manufacture the thingy. and somebody else steals the idea and the glory, and david sarnoff ends up rubnning the show, and tv turns into a monster, and farnsworth dies a bitter broken man. it would make a heck of a movie.
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