What Jim isn't telling you is that if you lived in Rigby you'd have
invented television too. (Boring!)
Bill Stanke
"James N. McBride" wrote:
>
> The primary working element of television was invented by a man named Philo
> T. Farnsworth in Rigby, Idaho, USA which is about 12 miles from where I live
> part of the time. Of course RCA stole the idea and it took many years for
> his family finally achieve some success in the court system. /jnm
>
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> Hmmm. I dunno, but Nikolai Tesla invented it (Radio) :^)
>
> The Supreme Court ruled on June 21, 1943 in Marconi Wireless T. Co. of
> America v. U.S., 320 U.S. 1 that Marconi invented nothing that was not
> already covered in patents by Tesla, Lodge, and Stone.
>
> Matt
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> On 12/12/01 at 9:08 AM Wayne Harridge wrote:
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> >> Bachofen <mbachofen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >.
> >.
> >> tragedies was an invention of television, Godless.
> >
> >Today is evidently the 100th anniversary of Marconi's first successful
> >wireless
> >transmission - coincidence ?
> >
> >
> >Wayne Harridge
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