The address is 202 Green Street, San Francisco, California. And while that address lacks the immediate recognition of, say, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave or No. 10 Downing Street, it is no less of an historic landmark. Because here, in 1927, the most ubiquitous appliance in human history made its first appearance on earth. We are talking […]
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“To have the right idea is one thing. To have the right idea and make it work is everything.” – Roger Penrose ___________________ Having the right idea and making it work – that is what Philo T. Farnsworth did nearly 100 years ago. In the 1920s, while the great minds of science wrestled with 19th
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Some of you know that for the past couple of months I have been ‘laser focused’ (I actually hate that expression, but it does seem to express the ADHD way I go at some things) on the presentation I delivered to The Cosmic Summit on Saturday June 15. I have to admit that being part
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Quantum Mechanics had a moment last summer, thanks to ‘Oppenheimer.’ But ‘Oppenheimer’ also reminded me of an important historical footnote that too often gets overlooked in our preoccupation with blowing things up and the prospect of human annihilation: that television, and video in general, also derives from the same scientific breakthroughs in the early 20th
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I have written a couple of things in the past week about what ties my two books together. I’ve also discussed both books in a couple of podcasts. Rather than duplicate that content on this site, I’ll put links to the things I’ve posted on my other sites: A Tale of Two Biographies Part 1
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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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….if you've heard this one before. From a story that ran in the Investor's Business Daily last week: In 1929, Sarnoff secretly hired Vladimir Zworykin, an engineer and head of TV research at Westinghouse, where he worked on an electronic scanning system for a prototype TV. The Russian immigrant soon hopped from Philadelphia to San
…all brought to light in the Wall Street Journal: After months in the making, this morning’s Wall Street Journal offers a front page story featuring the "amateur fusion" community hosted here at fusor.net: Many of these hobbyists call themselves "fusioneers," and have formed a loosely knit community that numbers more than 100 world-wide. Getting into
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Here at Farnovision.com, we like to keep up with ALL the latest communications technologies. Here’s the latest from Europe:
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