(this post is an excerpt from the new Afterword that will be appended to the updated 2023 Edition of The Boy Who Invented Television.) In September 2002, Pem Farnsworth was invited to make an appearance at the 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: About midway through the telecast, host Conan O’Brien paused at the edge of […]
…and in our pockets, now. Well, sorta. It’s not exactly the theory of relativity, but it’s all part of the same cosmology. Which we take entirely for granted. I posted a piece on the Townsend Brown website about the connections between Albert Einstein, the papers he published in 1905, and the inventing of television: Source:
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