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Originally Posted by smoker76
I wonder if the family ever recieved any monies from the invention.
I bet that family had an American dream life even if they didn't get money from it.
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The Farnsworths are L.D.S. (Mormon), and they are a very respectable family as I have heard from those who knew them up in Utah. I understand that they are a very successful and I have the feeling that they, like most other TV pioneers, were screwed by Sarnoff. But as Mormons, they probably did not hold a grudge and did their best to live a life of happiness regardless of losses & damages courtesy of RCA... Sarnoff had stolen just about everything he patented, and he had to go to the extreme of murder to do it in some cases (Edwin H Armstrong's "suicide")...
Charles