On 26 May 2010 at 2:26, Randy Dawson wrote:
The major TV fallout from the war, is that the
electronic scanning
system of Philo T. Farnsworth, was put on hold by the government war
effort. He had electronic scanning before the war, and spent the years
after the war fighting his patents with RCA. He won, but at a cost of
his life due to depression. Electronic television as we know it, 500 +
lines of resolution was Farnsworth, and it was in the 1930's, Not
Lodige Baird and his mechanical scanner, or Zyorkyin, who could not
get his electronic system to work, in the Westinghouse labs. He
visited Philo too, and took all his secrets from the open inventor.
Another life destroyed by "General" David Sarnoff's thievery and
underhandedness; Armstrong being the other.
I was at the Tektronix campus today, and one of the
streets is named
Zyorkin...
I once had the distinction of being in an all-night poker game that
was broken up by Mr. Zworykin. (note the spelling). A long story.
--Chuck