Every video screen on the planet can trace its origins to this sketch that Philo Farnsworth drew in 1922.

The Distinction is Not Insignificant

Above, the first hand-drawn rendering of the Image Dissector, ca. 1922. Arguably, every video display on the planet – including the one you are looking at now – can trace its origins to this drawing, which was presented during patent litigation in the 1930s.   Sadly, the myth that television was “too complex” for a […]

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