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[bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv]

Thanks for the clarification Park.  Even though I have been an avid
Farnsworth supporter my entire life, it appears there is much fact that
gets turned into urban legend.  I guess I should hunt down some of these
books and do a little reading!  

 

I had always also heard that Mr. Farnsworth got his ideas from a man who
was considered the village idiot in his small town in Utah, but Philo
thought there was something to it and he pursued developing the ideas.
The real sci-fi nuts figure he was a time traveler who got stuck there
out of his technological world with no one to understand him except
Philo Farnsworth.  It would make a good movie!

 

Bill Spencer

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Nashville, TN 37207

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CP (615) 445-5616

 

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[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of C.Park
Seward
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] RCA BROADCAST NEWS issues for free online
viewing

 

Hi Bill,

 

You may want to check that fact. He was the only person who had RCA
write him a check for using his television parents. It was said the RCA
lawyer had tears in his eyes when presenting the check.

 

"In 1931, David Sarnoff <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff>  of
RCA offered to buy Farnsworth's patents for $100,000 (USD
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar> ), with the
stipulation that he become an employee of RCA, but Farnsworth
refused.[25]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth#cite_note-Everson1-24>
In June of that year, Farnsworth joined the Philco
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philco>  company and moved toPhiladelphia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania>  along with
his wife and two children.[26]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth#cite_note-EFarnsworth135-
8-25>  RCA would later file an interference suit against Farnsworth,
claiming Zworykin's 1923 patent had priority over Farnsworth's design,
despite the fact it could present no evidence that Zworykin had actually
produced a functioning transmitter tube before 1931. Farnsworth had lost
two interference claims to Zworykin in 1928, but this time he prevailed
and the U.S. Patent Office
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Patent_Office>  rendered a decision
in 1934 awarding priority of the invention of the image dissector to
Farnsworth. RCA lost a subsequent appeal, but litigation over a variety
of issues continued for several years with Sarnoff finally agreeing to
pay Farnsworth royalties"

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth#Farnsworth_television_fact
ory_history

 

In the late thirties, when RCA and Zworykin, who was now working for
RCA, tried to claim rights to the essence of television, it became
evident that Farnsworth held the priority patent in the technology. The
president of RCA sought to control television the same way that they
controlled radio and vowed that, "RCA earns royalties, it does not pay
them," and a 50 million dollar legal battle subsequently ensued. 

In the height of the legal battle for patent priority, Farnsworth's high
school science teacher was subpoenaed and traveled to Washington to
testify that as a 14 year old, Farnsworth had shared his ideas of his
television scanning tube with his teacher. 

With patent priority status ruled in favor of Farnsworth, RCA for the
first time in its history, began paying royalties for television in
1939.

 

http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae408.cfm


Best,

Park

 

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On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:10 AM, <bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv>
<bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv> wrote:





He also lost the patent battle with RCA.

 

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