Toman also responded in this regard. A few years later, Toman proved in a patent infringement case that Farnsville's explanation of the theory of relativity was the clearest and simplest he had ever heard. I think it may have been 192 1 year, and Fallonville is 15 years old. And Toman is not the only one who regards this young student as a genius.
With only two years of high school study and strong self-study ability, Farnsville was admitted to Brigham Young University.
At the end of the second school year, his father's death forced him to drop out of school. But, in fact, there is no big intellectual loss. At that time, few people could understand Farnsville's idea of establishing a television system. Even if anyone knows, no one is at Brigham Young University. But such a person is vladimir zworykin, a doctor of electrical engineering who immigrated from Russia to the United States. When he went to work in Westinghouse, he had a dream to build a complete TV system, which the couple failed to realize. Farnsville succeeded, but not immediately.
He began to build a complete TV system when he was 2 1 year old. By then, he had found investors, several assistants and a lovely wife ("Pem”Pam), who assisted him in his research. He went to San Francisco and built a laboratory in an empty attic. 1927 On September 7th, Farnsville painted a square glass black and drew a straight line in the center. In another room, Pam's brother Cliff Ghadel put a slide between the image separator (a camera tube invented by Farnsville earlier that year) and a hot and bright carbon arc lamp. Farnsville, Pam and George Iverson, one of the investors, watched the bankruptcy administrator. They saw the linear image, and then, when Cliff rotated the slide 90, they saw it moving-that is, they saw the first full-screen image being transmitted.
History should record Farnsville's reaction. After all, at school, we know that Samuel Moss's response to his first electrical signal is "something created by God". Edison said into his microphone, "Mary has a little lamb." Tang Ai tacitly said, "I mean." Alexander Grics-shouted for help: "Watson, come here, I need you!" " "Farnsville shouted? Phil just said, "This is your TV." Late that night, he wrote in his experimental diary: "The image of the line received this time is very clear. "There is nothing as attractive as the climax scene of the movie. Maybe we can listen to George Iverson's telegram to another investor: "That shit has been done! "
At this point in the story, things got worse. When lawyer BLACKPINK appeared, the importance of physics, engineering and scientific inspiration declined. Meanwhile, Zvorykin filed a patent application in 1923. By 1933, he has developed a camera tube called icon. It happened that Zvorykin had contacted ABC at that time, and David Sharov, the head of the company, did not think of defending Farnsville's right to make TV. He was accused: "ABC doesn't pay royalties. What we want is to take these things away."
Therefore, there was a legal battle over who invented television. According to ABC's lawyer, Zvorykin's patent 1923 precedes any patent of Farnsville, including his patent of image separator. However, ABC's case statement has no strength, because it can't provide evidence to prove that Zvorykin produced an operable TV transmitter at 1923. In addition, Thomas, Farnsville's former teacher, confirmed that Farnsville not only conceived the idea in high school, but also made an original frame of an electron tube. This frame is almost a copy of the image separator.
1934, the United States Patent Office made a decision to grant the invention priority to Farnsville. ABC appealed, but failed. However, many different issues were litigated for many years until Sharov finally agreed to pay royalties to Farnsville.
But Sharov shouldn't waste so much time. During World War II, the government banned the sale of TV sets, and by the end of the war, Farnsville's key patents were nearing expiration. When the patent expired, ABC quickly controlled the production and sales of TV sets, and in the strong public relations activities, it also intended to promote Zvorekin and Sharov as the fathers of TV sets. Farnsville returned home to Maine, suffering from depression aggravated by excessive drinking. He suffered from neurasthenia and stayed in the hospital all day, so he had to be treated. 1947, it seems that he was punished for inventing television, and his house in Maine was burned to the ground.
People may think that this is the last fate of Fallonville, but it is not. Ten years later, he appeared as a mysterious guest on the TV program "What should I do? In ". Farnsville is called Dr. X, and the discussion group thinks he deserves to appear in this program. A member of the discussion group asked X Bo Tu if he had invented some kind of machine, which might cause pain when used. Farnsville replied, "Yes, sometimes it is extremely painful."
His answer is very polite. His attitude towards this effect derived from his invention is even stronger. Someone asked his son about his father's positive attitude towards TV, and his son said, "I guess he might say that he thinks he has created something similar to a monster, a way for people to waste their lives." He added: "throughout my childhood, his reaction to TV was' it's worthless, we won't watch TV at home." I don't want TV in your intellectual diet. So we can end Farnsville's story like this: he is not only the inventor of television, but also one of the earliest and most thorough critics of television.