Commercial Television is 70 years old today.

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Philo t Farnsworth. Most of his ideas were stoked or pirated by RCA. Only many years after his death did the courts rule in his favour. There were many others who improved his ideas. But without his early experiments . Do a wiki search. Or better yet check out the numerous books about him and his life. Most people think of him as having the same hairbrained ideas as Tesla's.