Distant Vision: Romance and Discovery of an Invisible Frontier (Philo T. Farnsworth, Inventor of Television)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0962327603 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 333 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Forgotten No More aaron cummings For everyone who has ever looked at television, you owe it to both yourself and the inventor to read this book!Written from the perspective of one who knew the Father of Television almost better than he knew himself, his wife, Elma Gardner Farnsworth.You get a widescreen look at how TV got its start right through production and even into some of Philo Farnsworth's other inventions.This is a must read book! Why hasn't it been made into a made-for TV-movie ye. Farnsworth Invented TV Farnsworth is not a household name, but it should be. RCA did everything it could to obliderate the truth about who invented TV. RCA's top tech man visited the Farnsworth lab in SFran, and the boys at the lab, in Farnsworth's absence, went so far as to build a sample camera tube for RCA. This was built into RCA's development of TV. The book is part personal, part technical, and very revealing of how RCA tried to work around Farnsworth. In the end they paid . "An affectionate bio of a 20th Century American Inventor." according to A Customer. This is a loving biography of television pioneer Philo Farnsworth by his widow. Her affection and admiration for him do not allow for much admission of errors of judgement in technical, personal, or business matters. Still, the man's brilliance is clear, as well as the stubbornness which cost him so much.This is principally a story of a man's life. There is little in the way of technical information or photographs of the technologies that Farnsworth invente
Presentation signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt.