【美国人物志】菲洛·泰勒·法恩斯沃(7/9)

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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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Philo
Farnsworth
Vladimir Zworykin
Radio Corporation of America
R-C-A company

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On September 7th, 1927, Philo turned on a device that was the first working television receiver. In another room was the first television camera. Philo had invented the special camera tube earlier that year. The image produced on the receiver was not very clear, but the device worked. Within a few months, Philo Farnsworth had found several people who wanted to invest money in his invention. In August, 1930, the United States government gave Philo patent documents. These would protect his invention from being copied by others. Very soon, however, several other inventors claimed they had invented a television device. One of these inventors, Vladimir Zworykin, worked for the powerful Radio Corporation of America. The R-C-A company began legal action against Philo Farnsworth. It said Mr. Zworykin had invented his device in the 1920s. The big and powerful R-C-A claimed that it, not the small Philo Farnsworth Television Company, had the right to produce, develop and market television.