Phil Kane wrote:
Philo T. Farnsworth was a Utah native who in 1927 got the first patent
for the "image dissector" video camera tube which enabled television
as we know it. RCA's Sarnoff stole it and the designation of
"Inventor of TV" from him just as he - Sarnoff - stole FM radio from
Major Edwin Armstrong...
An interesting sidenote -- Sarnoff started making people call him "General
Sarnoff" after WWII, during the final years of his legal battles with
Armstrong, because he felt Armstrong being addressed as "Major Armstrong"
imbued him with an unfair aura of honor and credibility. (Sarnoff had been
granted a special commission as a Brigadier General during the war so he could
serve as a communications consultant to General Eisenhower.)
Bill W5WVO
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