I ushered a play at 1st stage theater at Tysons corner: The Farnsworth
Invention, about Philo Farnsworth's invention of television signal
transmission and David Sarn RCA president who allegedly stole his
invention. It was hard to determined in the play who actually unlock the
key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media
mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy. owever, according to
wikipedia, this play is an intentional alteration of the story. It shows
Farnsworth as being defeated legally by Sarnoff, and then spending his
life in obscurity. In reality, Farnsworth won the lawsuit, later
received a $1 million payment from RCA for the purchase of his TV
patents, and went on to have an illustrious career in technological
research.
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