【美国人物志】菲洛·泰勒·法恩斯沃(8/9)

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75年前电视在旧金山郊外的一间实验室里诞生了。它的创造者是年仅21岁的美国男孩菲洛·法恩斯沃思。在20世纪的大部分时间里，他几乎被人们遗忘了———尽管他的发明塑造了20世纪，甚至从某种意义上成为这个世纪的特征。
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R.C.A
Mr. Zworykin
Mr. Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth
Justin Tolman
Vladimir Zworykin
David Sarnoff

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The legal action between R.C.A and the Farnsworth company continued for several years. R.C.A. proved that Mr. Zworykin did make a mechanical television device. But it could not demonstrate that the device worked. At the same time, R.C.A. claimed that Mr. Farnsworth had produced his television image tube after Mr. Zworykin had developed his. When Mr. Farnsworth said he had developed the idea much earlier, R.C.A. said it was impossible for a 14-year-old boy to produce the idea for a television device. Company representatives said Mr. Farnsworth was not even a scientist. He had never finished college. R.C.A. said Philo Farnsworth should be forced to prove he had invented the television image tube. Philo could not prove he invented it. But his high school teacher could. In court, Justin Tolman produced the drawing that Philo had made for him many years before as a student. At that moment, the legal experts for R.C.A. knew they had lost. Philo Farnsworth won the legal action and the right to own the invention of television. However, he did not have the money or support to build a television industry. It was the 1950s before television became a major force in American life. Vladimir Zworykin and David Sarnoff, the head of R.C.A., became the names connected with the new industry.