Progress is not FREE!
The story of Philo
Farnsworth (he invented Television) is
Inspirational, exciting and--my personal favorite--Damn Depressing.
I would like to see a chart or graphic or
some sort of representation of the relative contributions (technical, financial,
"political," etc.) of Armstrong, Goldmark, Farnsworth, De Forest, Edison,
et al., even David
Sarnoff--to the "Invention" of Television.
There is a disjoint between what people (read
that, all of us) expect to be "Fair & Equitable" and what is required
for humankind to get out of, and stay out of, "Caves."
The Thinkers
Think! --The Doers Do!
If all of the Thinkers had sat on their thoughts--we
would still be living in caves.
If all of the Doers had Not Done, we would
still be living in caves--regardless of what the Thinkers had thought!
I don't like it, but it seems immutable--a
physics thing--a Law of Nature: For mankind to survive, there seems a requirement
that the Greedy feed off of the Artisans.
And, the rest of us keep quiet because we are the beneficiaries of this
process.
The people--by their deeds--who have
brought about the most momentous changes to mankind--good & bad--were
the Doers, and--in the main--were not nice people.
Looking at Sarnoff's history, he seems the
archetype of that dichotomy.
Once, in a blue moon, is born a soul that
is both a Thinker and a Doer--Edison, Eastman, Land, Westinghouse, etc.;
or a duo--Wozniak & Jobs, etc.
As evidence of this Fact of Life, less than
1% of inventors benefit directly from their inventions--most die bitter
and impoverished people.
If one is innovative and desires Peace-of-Mind,
one should suppress the urge to invent! "--lie
down til the Feeling Goes Away." The
preceding "LOAD" are my reluctant conclusions, not my beliefs!
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| Some of the Fathers of Television (in
no order)
Either inventing the contributing technology, or the active promotion
of Television.
Abbe Giovanni Caselli
May and Smith, Two English engineers.
George Carey
Paul Nipkow
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Thomas Edison
Lee Deforest
Boris Rosing
A.A. Campbell-Swinton
Ulises Sanabria
Charles Francis Jenkins
Dénes von Mihály
Kenjiro Takayanagi
Vladimir Zworykin
John Logie Baird
Philo Farnsworth
E. Howard Armstrong
Allen Balcom Du Mont
Manfred Von Ardenne
Earl Muntz
David Sarnoff
Peter Goldmark
et al.
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